![[Porta Maggiore] Veduta del Monumento del Condotto delle Acqua Claudia, e Anione nuovo, e dell' Acqua Felice.](jpegs/51541.jpg)
[Porta Maggiore] Veduta del Monumento del Condotto delle Acqua Claudia, e Anione nuovo, e dell' Acqua Felice.
Rossini dis. e inc.
Roma 1823.
Etching. 360 x 455mm (14¼ x 20"), with large margins, uncut.
A view of the Porta Maggiore, with the remains of aqueducts Aqua Claudia and Aqua Anio Novus, which were integrated into the Aurelian Wall as a gate in 271 AD. The Acqua Felice was built by Pope Sixtus (Felice Peretti) in 1586. The medieval buildings have now been cleared.
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: 51541] £400.00
Roma 1823.
Etching. 360 x 455mm (14¼ x 20"), with large margins, uncut.
A view of the Porta Maggiore, with the remains of aqueducts Aqua Claudia and Aqua Anio Novus, which were integrated into the Aurelian Wall as a gate in 271 AD. The Acqua Felice was built by Pope Sixtus (Felice Peretti) in 1586. The medieval buildings have now been cleared.
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: 51541] £400.00