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[Quirinal] Veduta Generale dei Gran Colossi sul Monte Quirinale.
Rossini dis. e inc.
Roma 1819.
Etching. 365 x 465mm (14¼ x 18¼"), with wide, uncut margins. Slight creasing.
View from the Piazza di Monte Cavallo atop the Monte del Quirinale in Rome, with the statues of horse tamers (the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux) and the obelisk from the Mausoleum of Augustus. The Palazzo del Quirinale, official residence of the Italian president, overlooks the Piazza.
The first state, before the plate number, issued unbound. From an early 19th century folder titled 'Roman Engravings. The Property of Major E.G.G. Rugdon[?]'.
[Ref: 51487] £900.00
Roma 1819.
Etching. 365 x 465mm (14¼ x 18¼"), with wide, uncut margins. Slight creasing.
View from the Piazza di Monte Cavallo atop the Monte del Quirinale in Rome, with the statues of horse tamers (the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux) and the obelisk from the Mausoleum of Augustus. The Palazzo del Quirinale, official residence of the Italian president, overlooks the Piazza.
The first state, before the plate number, issued unbound. From an early 19th century folder titled 'Roman Engravings. The Property of Major E.G.G. Rugdon[?]'.
[Ref: 51487] £900.00