| Method | Etching |
| Artist | Ludovico Caracciolo |
| Published | c. 1790 |
| Dimensions | Sheet 275 x 475 mm, Plate 315 x 500 mm, Sheet 375 x 545 mm |
| Notes |
A view of the Ancient Greek city of Paestum, located on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia (now southern Italy). The ruined city is famous for its three Doric Order temples, dating from around 600 to 450 BC. After its foundation by Greek colonists under the name of Poseidonia (Ancient Greek: Ποσειδωνία) it was eventually conquered by the local Lucanians and later the Romans. The Lucanians renamed it Paistos and the Romans gave the city its current name Paestum, or Pesto. The city was abandoned in the Early Middle Ages, and left undisturbed and largely forgotten until the eighteenth century. Ludovico Caracciolo (1761– 1842) was an Italian landscape painter and engraver, specialising in panoramas of Rome and studies of classical architecture. He became a protégé of Elizabeth Foster, the second wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, who moved to Rome after she was widowed in 1811. He published a full set of print reproductions after Claude Lorrain's Liber Veritatis in Rome in 1815 and his spectacular 360 degree panorama of the Italian capital, painted in 1824, is now held by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Condition: Creasing and dirt build-up to margins, with some small tears, not affecting image. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £300.00 |
| Stock ID | 44688 |