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Fischer von Erlach’s Entwurff einer historischen Architectur 93 way to make it easier to maintain the structure of the book.) Some of the prints evidently were not yet finished. Nine plates included in the fi- nal version evidently were not yet cut, suggest- ing that Tessin saw drawings for these images in 1718. Others were included in an unfinished state. Most notably, the elevation of the Trautson garden palace shows the structure and one figure, but is missing the clouds and the rest of the staff- age that would later fill out the scene (fig. 3).15 This image is identical to the plate included in the 1712 manuscript, and while it is likely that an old proof impression was used – other images in the Tessins’ volume are early proofs, including one that is an earlier state than the impression in the manuscript16 – the fragmentary nature of the image suggests that the plate still had not been finished by 1719-20. One of the few images to be heavily reworked between 1712 and 1721, the Domus Aurea of Nero, is missing altogether from the Tessins’ copy, suggesting that this plate may have been recut at that very moment, and that an impression was unavailable. Two other differences stand out between the book Heraeus sent to Stockholm and the edi- tion published a year later: first, the semi-inde- pendent fifth book, comprising thirteen plates of vases, was omitted entirely; second, there is no 15 This drawing for this engraving also served as the basis for another print of the building published by Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, who is credited in the caption with the drawing. For this image, see Prange, Entwurf und Phantasie (cit. n. 1), p. 150. 16 The Temple of Diana at Ephesus has a Roman number “VII” added in graphite to the upper right of the image. This was cut into the plate before the impression included in the 1712 manuscript was taken. 3: Trautson Garden Palace, Entwurff einer historischen Architectur, by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. c. 1712.