A Capriccio View of Roman Ruins along the Tiber

Jacob van der Ulft

The image shows a landscape with architectural ruins, likely of classical origin, visible from an elevated point of view. The horizon is positioned higher in the frame, revealing distant buildings and a faint… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Jacob van der Ulft ¹
Medium: pen and brush and iron gall ink on laid paper; laid down ¹
Original: 4,916 × 3,211 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

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[Entrance to the Sacristy, Notre-Dame, Paris], Charles Nègre

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Similar light, opposite temperature · computed

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