The Forum, Rome

The Forum, Rome
The Forum, Rome
Artist	David Roberts
Year	1859
Type	Oil on panel, landscape painting
Dimensions	38 cm × 62 cm (15 in × 24 in)
Location	Guildhall Art Gallery, London

Year1859

Dimensions38 cm × 62 cm (15 in × 24 in)

The Forum, Rome is an 1859 oil painting by the British artist David Roberts. It depicts a view of the Roman Forum from the edge of the Capitoline Hill looking towards three surviving columns from the portico of the Temple of Vespasian. Roberts visited Rome in the winter of 1853. More modern buildings had recently been demolished to allow excavations of the Ancient Roman remains. ^[1]

Roberts produced seven view of the forum ^[2] including Ruins of the Roman Forum (now in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery).^[3]

Today the painting is in the collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London, having been gifted by the art collector Charles Gassiot in 1902.^[4]

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Paintings	The Departure of the Israelites (1829) The Porch of St Maclou, Rouen (1829) The Castle of Alcalá de Guadaíra (1833) The Torre del Oro (1833) Old Buildings on the Darro, Granada (1834) St Paul's Cathedral with the Lord Mayor's Procession (1836) London from Fleet Street (1837) Chapel of Ferdinand and Isabella, Granada (1838) A View in Cairo (1840) The Fountain on the Prado, Madrid (1841) A View of Toledo and the River Tagus (1841) The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec (1841) The Temple of Dendera (1841) The Gate of Metawaley (1843) A Street in Cairo (1846) Edinburgh from the Castle (1847) Mont Saint Michel (1848) Interior of Saint-Gommaire, Lierre (1850) The Inauguration of the Great Exhibition (1852) The Piazza Navona at Rome (1857) Edinburgh from the Calton Hill (1858) The Forum, Rome (1859) Ruins of the Roman Forum (1859)
Other	The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia Portrait of David Roberts (1840 painting)

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