Travellers among Roman Ruins

Pieter Stevens

The image shows a landscape enclosed within an oval frame, presenting a historical scene with Roman-style ruins. In the foreground, three figures stand near a rocky area. To the right, people with livestock move… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Pieter Stevens ¹
Medium: pen and brown ink with red-brown and blue wash, incised for transfer ¹
Original: 4,053 × 3,724 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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