Pula (Pola), Istria (Croatia): the temple of Augustus. Etching by D. Cunego, 17--, after C.L. Clérisseau.

  • Clérisseau, Charles-Louis, 1721-1820.
Date:
[1831 or 1832]
Reference:
2924547i
Part of:
Architectural beauties of ancient Rome
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Description

People are sitting on the steps to the temple, including a woman with a child. Right, a woman buys fruit or vegetables from a woman with baskets of produce, accompanied by a man in Ottoman dress. Far right, three men in Ottoman dress, one of them armed with a gun and a sword

Publication/Creation

[Bristol (15 Corn Street)] : [Published by J. Brett, engraver] ; [London (Holborn)] : [Priestly & Weale, Architectural Library] ; [Bath (Abbey Walks)] : [Upham's Reading Rooms], [1831 or 1832] (Bristol : Printed by J. Brett)

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 46.8 x 60.1 cm

Lettering

Temple of Pola in Istria vulgarly called the temple of Diana dedicated by the republick of Pola to Rome and Augustus as the inscription of the frontespiece denoteth. Temple de Pola en Istrie dit vulgairement temple de Diane dedié par la republique de Pole à Rome et à Auguste selon l'inscription du frontispice. C. Clerisseau p. D. Cunego sc. Romae Bears number: 3

Edition

[State with Brett's imprint].

References note

Michel Huber and Carl Christian H. Rost, Manuel des curieux et des amateurs de l'art, Zurich 1800, vol. III, p. 173, nos. 43-55
Journal des arts, de littérature et de commerce, 5 nivose an. 11 [1802?], p. 8 ("Le même Cunego, élève de Clérisseau, a gravé à Rome, d'après ces tableaux, une suite de 14 grandes vues de Rome, de Naples, et de Pola en Istrie. Cet ouvrage était destiné à suppléer aux vues qui manquent au Desgodets. Les planches sont aussi à Londres.")
Charles Leblanc, Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, 1854, vol. 2, p. 76, nos. 74-86

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2924547i

Notes

One plate in a set described by Leblanc, loc. cit., as "Italie (Vues d'édifices antiques et de ruines fameuses en). Clérisseau. 13p. in-fol. en larg.", apparenty drawing on Huber and Rost, loc. cit. ("Vues d'édifices antiques et de ruines fameuses en Italie, d'après Clérisseau, 13. grandes et belles pieces, en t."). Neither source states whether this was a title of the set as published, though some later historians have used it so

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