The Teatro Marcello, Rome, Italy

细节

Thomas Hartley Cromek (1809-1873)
The Teatro Marcello, Rome, Italy
signed, inscribed and dated 'T.H. CROMEK. F. 1844. ROME' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic heightened with touches of bodycolour
20 3/8 x 14 in. (51.5 x 35.8 cm.)

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拍品专文

The theatre was begun by Julius Caesar, but finished by Augustus, the first of Rome's emperors who claimed that he found Rome in clay and left it in marble. He dedicated the theatre to his favourite nephew Marcellus. Instead of inheriting Augustus' empire, Marcellus died young and was the first to be laid in Augustus's mausoleum. For a note on the artist see lot 125.