Hand-colored etching / handmade paper; size: 64.70 x 50.50 cm; signed on relief l.d.: Rossini dis. e inc. Margins covered with p.partout. Graphic hand-colored in the period.
Monumental tomb of Cecilia Metella, near Rome built at the end of the 1st century BC. In the Middle Ages, the building served as a fortress, with the blanks visible today added on top at the time. Today it houses a museum. The form of the building was the inspiration for, among others, the water feature in the Royal Baths Park and the kitchen building in the Rabbit House. Luigi Rossini (1790 - 1857) - Italian architect and draughtsman; studied at the Academy of Bologna, from which he graduated in 1813.
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