View of the Theatre of Marcellus in Rome. Only 12 or 13 Doric arches remain of the ancient circus erected by Caesar Augustus for his nephew. The ruins of the Palazzo Savelli-Orsini above and dome of Santa Maria in Campitelli at right. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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