ARCHITECTURE IN ANCIENT ROME 1878 Lawrence Alma-Tadema VICTORIAN ENGRAVING

Original 1878 6 1/2 inch x 6 1/2 inch engraving titled ARCHITECTURE IN ANCIENT ROME

Engraved by Leopold Löwenstam (1842 - 1898). Painter, etcher and engraver, born at Düsseldorf, worked in Amsterdam and Stockholm, moved to London in 1873, exhibited 20 plates at the RA from 1879 to 1897. Produced the majority of the reproductions after Lawrence Alma-Tadema and became the painter's standard etcher.

From the painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1844 - 1901). Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky.

Published in the Art Journal by J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., London.

Page size 12 3/8 inch x 9 1/4 inch

The engraving is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.