the side view of the remains of the portico that surrounded the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Roman forum. 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, 400 x 535 mm. (15 3/4 x 21 1/8 in), minor creasing in the upper right corner,