Ruins of the Imperial Palaces in Rome, Joseph Anton Koch, 1810

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Ruins of the Imperial Palaces in Rome, 1810, Pen and black ink over graphite, squared in graphite, framing line in brown ink, sheet: 14 15/16 x 19 3/8 in. (38 x cm), Drawings, Joseph Anton Koch (Austrian, Obergibeln bei Elbigenalp 1768–1839 Rome), Koch’s precise delineation—first in graphite, then reinforced in ink—of the Roman landscape in this drawing exemplifies the artist’s Neoclassical style of draftsmanship. He presents a view from the southeast that includes in the middle ground the Palaceof Severus, four arches of the Aqua Claudia, and the Arch of Constantine

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