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- Title:
The Romans Polite to Strangers
- Additional Title(s):
The Romans Polite to Strangers, Palazzo Ruspoli al Corso Rome
The Romans Polite to Strangers, Palazzo Ruspoli al. Corso Rome
- Date:
- ca. 1781
- Medium:
- Aquatint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 1/8 x 22 5/16 inches (38.4 x 56.6 cm), Plate: 14 13/16 x 21 7/8 inches (37.6 x 55.6 cm), Image: 14 1/8 x 20 3/8 inches (35.8 x 51.7 cm), Image: 13 1/4 x 20 3/8 inches (33.7 x 51.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper right on back: "172"; inscribed in graphite, center on back (written vertically downwards): "814"; inscribed in brown ink, lower right on back: "[?72.]"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "[?2]"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "3"
Watermarked, center left: "[...] | [...]"
Lettered lower left below image within plate marks: "D.Allan Invt."; lettered lower center below image within plate marks: "The ROMANS Polite to STRANGERS. | Palazzo Ruspoli al. Corso Rome. | Publish'd as the Act directs by P. Sandby 1st. Jany. 1781."; lettered lower right below image within plate marks: "P.Sandby Fecit"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10966
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animals | architectural subject | buildings | columns | distance | figures | genre subject | horses (animals) | masks | pediment | perspective | smoke | spectators | windows
- Associated Places:
- Europe | Italy | Lazio | Rome
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:29391
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