1824 Luigi Rossini, Villa Mecenate, Tivoli, Rome, 52x64 cm, copper engraving

Veduta degl’Avanzi del cortile di Villa Mecenate in Tivoli, 1824

Signed and dated by Rossini in the plate along the lower margin.

Dimensions
Height: 49.3 cm
Width: 65.5 cm

Printed on early 19th century thick wove paper and with margins beyond the plate-impression on all sides.

Along with his contemporaries, Rossini believed the structure depicted in this view to be the villa of Mecenate (Maecenas), an Etruscan nobleman and friend of Augustus, but it was in fact, as Napoleon’s Prefect of Rome identified it in 1811, the remains of the sanctuary of Hercules Victor.

Luigi Rossini was a renowned Italian Architect, Painter and Etcher. He was born in Ravenna, Italy on December 15,1790. He died in Rome on April 22, 1857. Rossini graduated in both Architecture and Art from the Academy of Bologna studying in Rome between 1817 and 1824, where he engraved many large plates of ancient architecture.  The greater part of his work appeared in a collected edition of seven Imperial folio volumes published in 1829 as Le Antichita Romane (The Rome of Antiquity, a Collection of the Most Interesting Views of Ancient Rome).

Light age toning from previous framing. A strong impression.