“Temple de Jerusalem.” Hand-colored copperplate engraving.

From: Basnage, J. and Alewyn A. T’groot waerelds tafereel… Amsterdam, 1715, between pp. 108-109. Image originally conceived by the Jesuit scholar Juan Bautista Villalpando (1552-1608). This fine engraved view of the Temple and surrounding city is full of activity, with a mass of people, animals and carriages. Below the engraving is a key (French text) to the places that are numbered in the engraving. Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) was a skilled and prolific late Dutch Baroque painter, sculptor, engraver and caricaturist.