a view of the simple, single-arch, gate on the Via Latina, seen from within the Aurelian city wall looking out to the countryside, with the remains of aquaducts in the distance. The Porta Latina was built in the late 4th or early 5th century AD. Sheltering just inside the gate is the small church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina. 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, 360 x 500 mm. (14 1/8 x 19 5/8 in), a short repaired tear within the wide full margins, well outside the image, slight browning towards the sheet edges,