Parboni (Pietro)

the interior of the Colosseum in Rome, in 1813, viewed from a breach high in the outer wall where two archaeologial surveyors rest in the shade as they look over the arena below. Titled in Italian and French, it depicts the ongoing excavations to reveal the substructure that had commenced in 1810, as well as some of the structural conservation work to shore up the highest wall on the far side of the scene, which had been undertaken in 1807,

engraving on wove paper, 340 x 400 mm. (13 3/8 x 15 3/4 in), slight spotting, mostly marginal,