Art, literature & history
The Ruins of the Colosseum
1629
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 9.4 × 12.9 cm (3 11/16 × 5 1/16 in.) sheet: 15.1 × 21.5 cm (5 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2022.189.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Battista Mercati. The Ruins of the Colosseum. Giovanni Battista Mercati; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Andrée and Jonathan Bober. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Ruins of the Colosseum — Giovanni Battista Mercati. 1629.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 9.4 × 12.9 cm (3 11/16 × 5 1/16 in.) sheet: 15.1 × 21.5 cm (5 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2022.189.1. Gift of Andrée and Jonathan Bober.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.