Avanzo del Tempio di Minerva Medica, da altri un sepolcro, vicino a Porta Maggiore.
Rossini dis. e inc.
Roma 1823.
Etching. 500 x 615mm (19¾ x 24¼"), with large, uncut margins. Repaired tear in the top margin, entering image.
Although still known as The Temple of Minerva Medica, it is a 4th century nymphaeum, a building devoted to the nymphs, connected to the nearby Aqua Claudia. It is a ten-sided brick building with a door in one side and recesses with arched windows above on the other nine sides and with a cement cupola, which collapsed five years after Rossini drew it.
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: 51504] £450.00
Roma 1823.
Etching. 500 x 615mm (19¾ x 24¼"), with large, uncut margins. Repaired tear in the top margin, entering image.
Although still known as The Temple of Minerva Medica, it is a 4th century nymphaeum, a building devoted to the nymphs, connected to the nearby Aqua Claudia. It is a ten-sided brick building with a door in one side and recesses with arched windows above on the other nine sides and with a cement cupola, which collapsed five years after Rossini drew it.
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: 51504] £450.00