Title plate, from "Roman Ruins"

An etched title plate shows a crumbling masonry arch and a broken vault opening onto a shadowy interior, with a tumbled rock and vegetation in the foreground. Beside them, a large carved stone tablet bears the lettered title block, framing the ruins as a set of antiquarian views.

Look closer: A small signature 'Seb. Vranck inv.' appears in the lower left corner, and 'W. Hollar sculp.' in the lower right.

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Date

ca. 1650

Medium

Etching (copy)

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3991 × 2728 px

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