Prospectus Columnæ Traiani Imp., 1692. Cruyl, Lieven de, approximately 1640-1720, printmaker. 1692 Trajan's Column Published by Matteo Gregorio Rossi, the print depicts Trajan's Column and the surrounding piazza, with five monuments identified in a banner at the base including the column, the Chiesa di S. Maria di Loreto, the Palazzo del Quirinale and the Palazzo Mazzarini, now known as the Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi. Cited and attributed to Cruyl in Jatta 10S, fig. 41, who notes this print by Lievin Cruyl forms part of the suite, Prospectus Iocorum urbis Romae, and is from the second edi

Prospectus Columnæ Traiani Imp., 1692. Cruyl, Lieven de, approximately 1640-1720, printmaker. 1692 Trajan's Column Published by Matteo Gregorio Rossi, the print depicts Trajan's Column and the surrounding piazza, with five monuments identified in a banner at the base including the column, the Chiesa di S. Maria di Loreto, the Palazzo del Quirinale and the Palazzo Mazzarini, now known as the Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi. Cited and attributed to Cruyl in Jatta 10S, fig. 41, who notes this print by Lievin Cruyl forms part of the suite, Prospectus Iocorum urbis Romae, and is from the second edition of 1692. The first was published by Giovanni Battista de Rossi in 1666. For differences between the first and second edition, see fig. 40 and fig. 41. Cruyl's name does not appear on the print. Imprint: Rome, Typis Matthaei Gregori de Rubeis, in Foro Agonali. By privilege of the Pope. Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt collected prints, published works, drawings and paintings thematically focused upon the city of Rome. Her collection included views, plans, maps of Rome and depictions of the inhabitants of the city in popular costume. As intense urban development under Mussolini transformed Rome in the 1930's, interest in the city's past grew among certain circles in Rome. Pecci-Blunt's collection came to be known as "Roma Sparita" because of its nostalgic focus on the Rome of a bygone era. Pecci-Blunt marked many of the prints in her collection with her collector's marks. Small, circular marks found on the recto of the prints, typically in the lower right corner, display Pecci-Blunt's family coat of arms, a comet, encircled with the text: "Coll. A. L. Pecci Blunt." Circular marks on the verso of the prints, typically in the lower center, denote Pecci-Blunt's name for her collection, "Roma Sparita." The stamps contain the text; "Roma Sparita, ," (with space for adding an inventory number), encircled with additional text "Collezione Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt."

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