2-751-354 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Design for a ceiling-painting, Italy, (1928). 'About 1820-1830...There can be no doubt that [Luigi] Rossini was the artist...Rossini, draughtsman, architect and engraver [1790-1857]...is best known by a series of engravings treating ancient Rome and the antiquities of Pompeii...Our design is doubtlessly influenced by Pompeian paintings'. After an aquarelle pen-and-ink drawing. Plate CIV, fig 198, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]