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A person, tiny in scale, walks along a path between two grassy mounds that lead back to a band of brown buildings that span the width of this horizontal landscape painting. The grassy mounds are covered with frosty and spring green growth, with a few patches of ivory-white dirt. The person wears a brimmed, straw-yellow hat, a long-sleeved white shirt, knee-length brown pants over white stockings, and a red garment slung over one shoulder. He walks away from us toward a tunnel that runs alongside the right-hand mound, into the heart of the town beyond. The buildings are oatmeal brown, beige,…

View of the Cloaca Maxima, Rome

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783 - 1853)

1814 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Victoria and Roger Sant

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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