Ruins of the Imperial Palaces in Rome

1810

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and black ink over graphite; squared in graphite; framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions: sheet: 14 15/16 x 19 3/8 in. (38 x 49.2 cm)
Collection no.: 2005.179
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Joseph Anton Koch. Ruins of the Imperial Palaces in Rome. Joseph Anton Koch; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, 2005. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Ruins of the Imperial Palaces in Rome — Joseph Anton Koch. 1810.

Medium: Pen and black ink over graphite; squared in graphite; framing lines in brown ink. Dimensions: sheet: 14 15/16 x 19 3/8 in. (38 x 49.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, 2005.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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