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[Arcus Argentariorum] Veduta dell'Arco di Settimio Severo nel Foro Boario.

[Arcus Argentariorum] Veduta dell'Arco di Settimio Severo nel Foro Boario.

Rossini dis. e inc.
Roma 1821.
Etching. 405 x 485mm (15¾ x 19"), with large margins, uncut.
A view of the Arcus Argentariorum (Arch of the Moneychangers), a small arch in the Forum Boarium (the cattle Market). According to the inscription it was commissioned by the local money-changers and merchants in honour of emperor Septimus Severus and his family. It is now joined to the western wall of the seventh century church of San Giorgio al Velabro. This plate has one of the more dramatic scenes drawn by Bartolomeo Pinelli to add life to Rossini's architecture, a knife-fight.
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: 51564]  £600.00


 

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