# The Colosseum in Rome

- By: Hendrik Voogd (Amsterdam, 1768–1839)
- Date: 1797
- Medium: paper, ink
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 495 mm x width 704 mm
- Credit line: Private gift
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-2014-13-48--4e3ae4f63b6b07e52d161f9988ef075e)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/yoKOb/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In 1788, two years after Daniël Dupré, Hendrik Voogd also received a grant from the ‘Economic Branch’ of the Dutch Society of Sciences in Haarlem, enabling him to work for some time in Italy, where he wound up living until his death. Voogd only rarely made monumental drawings intended as independent works of art, such as this one