Rossini (Luigi)

the title continues ‘Questo edificio è di una costruzione de Bassi tempi (d’après nature)’. An interior view of the monumental dome tomb of the Turcia or Tossia family, just outside Tivoli.  This is one of 101 plates produced by Rossini (1790-1857) for his great work ‘Le Antichitá Romane’ (1819-1829), which followed very much in the tradition established by his 18th century predecessor, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, in recording the increasingly rediscovered remnants of ancient Rome being unearthed by archaeologists in amongst the grandeur of later baroque Rome. Rossini’s plates are distinguished by the greater presence of contemporary figures going about their daily lives at all levels of society,

engraving on wove paper, 540 x 390 mm. (21 1/4 x 15 3/8 in), a few repaired tears, three into the image on the left side, a horizontal fold across the lower section,