# View of the Vatican Palaces and of the Monte Mario

- By: Josephus Augustus Knip (Tilburg, 1777–1847)
- Date: c. 1809 - c. 1812
- Medium: paper, watercolor (paint), graphite (mineral)
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 365 mm x width 508 mm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Gerhards Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds, the VSBfonds, the Mondriaan Fonds and the Vereniging Rembrandt with additional funding from the Hendrik de Jong Fonds and the Liente Dons Fonds
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-2014-14-34--b057dfa8b326abad5e2968e03dc00bb1)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/EAXJK/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Knip made almost all of his Roman drawings in the part of the ancient city that stretches out from the left bank of the Tiber. He seems to have worked only rarely on the other side of the river. Drawings of Trastevere, a lively working-class district, are not known, and even the sights of Vatican City do not seem to have interested him much. An exception is this view of the Vatican palaces.