print
- Museum number
- Y,2.19
- Description
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The obelisk erected by Sixtus V in the Piazza del Popolo, with the gate and S.Maria del Popolo behind it, with two tablets with inscriptions in the foreground. c.1590s
Engraving
- Production date
- 1580-1600
- Dimensions
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Height: 532 millimetres
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Width: 367 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a group of six unnumbered plates of obelisks in the BM. For comment see Y,2.15.
To keep the series together all the plates have been placed under the name of Rouhier.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- From a Sloane album: see comment on Y,2.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Y,2.19
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 2006,U.828