A View of the Temple of Vespasian by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

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A view of the Roman Forum before the subsequent consolidations and clearings around the Temple of Vespasian, by Ducros, a great amateur of the ancient remains of the Eternal City where he spent 16 years.

A View of the Temple of Vespasian by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros.

Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

Moudon 1748 – Lausanne 1810

A View of the Temple of Vespasian, on the Roman Forum, before the 1810 excavation

Inscribed B. N°249 on a piece of paper laid on the verso at the bottom left.

Pen and black ink, grey wash and watercolour on paper.

385 x 471 mm – 15,16 x 18,54 in.

A view of the Roman Forum before the subsequent consolidations and clearings around the Temple of Vespasia.

Condition report – The sheet is pasted on another sheet of paper of the same period of time . Minor foxing. Abrasions on the edges.