Castello St. Angelo, between 1631 and 1637. Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664, etcher. [between 1631 and 1637] Castel Sant'Angelo The print depicts the Castel Sant'Angelo, flying a large flag and surrounded by artillery smoke. The scene includes several onlookers and the viewpoint is from the left riverbank towards the bridge and castle. With collector's marks of Pecci-Blunt, Alessandro Castagnari (initials "" with the Capitoline wolf of Rome, Lugt 86a), and J. Burleigh James ("J. B. J.", Lugt 1425). Ref.: De Vesme 818. Date from BM. Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt collected prints, published work

Castello St. Angelo, between 1631 and 1637. Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664, etcher. [between 1631 and 1637] Castel Sant'Angelo The print depicts the Castel Sant'Angelo, flying a large flag and surrounded by artillery smoke. The scene includes several onlookers and the viewpoint is from the left riverbank towards the bridge and castle. With collector's marks of Pecci-Blunt, Alessandro Castagnari (initials "" with the Capitoline wolf of Rome, Lugt 86a), and J. Burleigh James ("J. B. J.", Lugt 1425). Ref.: De Vesme 818. Date from BM. Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt collected prints, published works, drawings and paintings thematically focused upon the city of Rome. Her collection included views, plans, maps of Rome and depictions of the inhabitants of the city in popular costume. As intense urban development under Mussolini transformed Rome in the 1930's, interest in the city's past grew among certain circles in Rome. Pecci-Blunt's collection came to be known as "Roma Sparita" because of its nostalgic focus on the Rome of a bygone era. Pecci-Blunt marked many of the prints in her collection with her collector's marks. Small, circular marks found on the recto of the prints, typically in the lower right corner, display Pecci-Blunt's family coat of arms, a comet, encircled with the text: "Coll. A. L. Pecci Blunt." Circular marks on the verso of the prints, typically in the lower center, denote Pecci-Blunt's name for her collection, "Roma Sparita." The stamps contain the text; "Roma Sparita, ," (with space for adding an inventory number), encircled with additional text "Collezione Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt."

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