Perspective View of the Arch of Septimus Severus c1778

by Middleton, Charles Theodore

Arch of Septimus Severus and St Martins Church. Antique print of Roman antiquities.

Original copperplate engraving for Middleton’s Complete System of Geography, its larger title being A new and complete system of geography: containing a full, accurate, authentic and interesting account and description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, as consisting of continents, islands, oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, promontories, capes, bays, peninsulas, isthmusses, gulphs, &c. ... with their strange ceremonies, customs, amusements, &c. &c. which included ethnography, architecture and topography, by Charles Theodore Middleton. Published in London circa 1777-8.

Page size 23 x 36cm (9 x 14 1/8 inches). To plate mark measure 19 x 29cm (7 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches).