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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
The Colosseum
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

The Colosseum

Artist Emil Weddige (American, 1907 - 2001)
Manufacturer Society of Print Connoisseurs
CultureAmerican
Date1949
MediumColor lithograph on wove paper
DimensionsOverall, Image: 13 7/8 × 9 5/8 in. (35.2 × 24.4 cm)
Overall, Sheet: 16 3/4 × 12 13/16 in. (42.5 × 32.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 x 14 in. (48.3 x 35.6 cm)
InscribedTitle written in graphite below image, lower left. Signed in graphite below image, lower right: "Emil Weddige."
Markings"The Society of Print Connoisseurs" pressed into paper at lower right.
Credit LineGift of Mr. C. Wiley Grandy
Object number54.12.17
Not on view
DescriptionChild standing amid ruins with the Colosseum and an Italian landscape in the background.

Vedute Di Roma: The Colosseum
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
ca. 1757
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André Derain
1900-1954
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Carl Wilhelm Emil Milles
ca. 1925
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Hubert Robert
ca. 1765-1800
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François-Marius Granet
1830
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Bertrand Dorny
circa 1970s
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John E. Costigan
1940-1941
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Pablo (Paul) O'Higgins
1946-1950
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Georges Schreiber
1934-1977
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Doel Reed
1953
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Luigi Lucioni
1943