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Roma 1820.
Etching. 475 x 375mm (18¾ x 14¾"), with large margins, uncut.
A view from under the so-called Arch of Janus, the only quadrifrons triumphal arch remaining in Rome, at the edge of the Forum Boarium (cattle market). The church is the seventh century San Giorgio in Velabro, founded on the spot that Romulus and Remus were found by the she-wolf.
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: 51531] £400.00
Roma 1820.
Etching. 475 x 375mm (18¾ x 14¾"), with large margins, uncut.
A view from under the so-called Arch of Janus, the only quadrifrons triumphal arch remaining in Rome, at the edge of the Forum Boarium (cattle market). The church is the seventh century San Giorgio in Velabro, founded on the spot that Romulus and Remus were found by the she-wolf.
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: 51531] £400.00