Ruins of a round building, from "Roman Ruins"

An etched view of a ruined round tower of brick, its square openings in rows and its upper wall broken and overgrown with trees. A small arched doorway sits at the base beside a fragment of collapsed wall, with a road and distant figures in the foreground and a stone pillar framing the left edge.

Look closer: A small figure stands near the arched doorway at the base of the tower.

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Date

1673

Medium

Etching; first state of three

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3997 × 2631 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917