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The image shows a landscape from an elevated viewpoint, displaying rugged terrain, mountains in the distance, a settlement with small structures and a tower, detailed textures of rocks, foliage, and structures. The black and white color palette emphasizes a timeless quality. The scene includes uneven ground with rocks and vegetation, leading towards the center where a few figures are visible, with trees on the right side.
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The image shows a landscape from an elevated viewpoint, displaying rugged terrain, mountains in the distance, a settlement with small structures and a tower, detailed textures of rocks, foliage, and structures. The black and white color palette emphasizes a timeless quality. The scene includes uneven ground with rocks and vegetation, leading towards the center where a few figures are visible, with trees on the right side.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A View Near Rome

George Loring Brown

Date
1854
Medium
etching in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 13.18 × 20 cm (5 3/16 × 7 7/8 in.) sheet: 18.57 × 26.83 cm (7 5/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.2847
Credit line
Corcoran Collection
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • etching
  • Landscape
  • Trees
  • Mountains
  • Birds
  • City
  • Figures
  • Buildings
  • landscape
Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Albert R. Miller, Jr., Baltimore, Maryland; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

lower center in plate: G. L. Brown Rome 1854

NGA object ID 183543. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.