GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

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Ville Bordeaux (Gironde, 33)
Subject(s) Amphitheatre known as the “Palais Gallien”
  South door
Author(s) Hem, Herman van der
  Dutch artist (1619-1649)
Resource type Drawing (pen, ink and wash), 315 x 195 mm.
Date 1638-1649
Inscription

« Amphitheatrum Burdigalense, hodie luparum consistorium germanice dictum : het duyvets huys [maison du diable]. »

References Vienna, Österreische nationalbibliothek, Atlas Blaeu, V, pl. 5
Bibliography

Reinach 1893, pp. 129-144 ; Goyau 1894, pp. 23-26 ; Bordeaux 1904, pp. 20-21 ; Étienne 1962, pp. 191-195 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 38, 104-105

Remarks Van der Hem's drawing is reproduced in the 1904 edition of Bordeaux, pl. VIII
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