Ruins of the Collosseum, plate 10 from The Ruins of Rome
1639/40
Bartholomeus Breenbergh Dutch, 1598-1657
Holland
A painter of Roman landscapes and history subjects, Breenbergh arrived in Rome in 1619 and founded the Netherlandish artists' fraternity there in 1623. Returning to Amsterdam, he made about thirty small etchings around 1639-40. This is one of a series of seventeen devoted to "Various ruined buildings within and without Rome."
Etching in black on ivory laid paper