![[Pantheon] Veduta del Interno del Pronao del Pantheon.](jpegs/51514.jpg)
[Pantheon] Veduta del Interno del Pronao del Pantheon.
Rossini dis. e inc.
Roma 1820.
Etching. 440 x 550mm (17¼ x 21¾"), with large margins, uncut.
A view of the columns in the portico of the Pantheon, made from grey granite quarried in Egypt. Each column, weighing 60 tons, had to be dragged 62 miles from the quarry to the Nile, loaded into a barge, transferred to a galley to cross the Mediterranean to Ostia and back onto a barge to be taken up the Tiber, then moved the 700 metres to the building site.
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: 51514] £750.00
Roma 1820.
Etching. 440 x 550mm (17¼ x 21¾"), with large margins, uncut.
A view of the columns in the portico of the Pantheon, made from grey granite quarried in Egypt. Each column, weighing 60 tons, had to be dragged 62 miles from the quarry to the Nile, loaded into a barge, transferred to a galley to cross the Mediterranean to Ostia and back onto a barge to be taken up the Tiber, then moved the 700 metres to the building site.
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: 51514] £750.00