# A Procession at the Foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome

- By: Josephus Augustus Knip (Tilburg, 1777–1847)
- Date: c. 1809 - c. 1812
- Medium: paper, watercolor (paint), graphite (mineral)
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 465 mm x width 822 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-2014-14-35--711a55b564105c3e10a01f3b7bea100d)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/xRUxb/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)

Knip assembled this exceptionally large, ambitious composition with the help of at least three studies he had drawn in situ. He certainly consulted his sketchbooks for the scores of human figures. Knip probably made this drawing either on commission or for sale on the art market. For reasons that are not clear, he never finished it.