Veduta del luogo sepolcrale per gli Acattolici, presso la Piramide di Cajo Cestio in Roma

Acquaforte, 1809 - 1811 circa, firmata in basso a destra W F Gimelin ad nat. Del. Et sculp. Nel margine inferiore, sotto al titolo: In Roma presso l’Autore. Rara veduta del cimitero acattolico o cimitero degli Inglesi di Roma, luogo tra i più suggestivi della città. Disegno e incisione di Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin. In ottimo stato di conservazione. Etching, 1809- 1811 circa, signed on plate ' at lower right W F Gimelin ad nat. Del. Et sculp Rare view of the Cemetery of the Non-Catholics in Rome, etched by Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery contains possibly the highest density of famous and important graves anywhere in the world. It is the final resting-place of the poets Shelley and Keats, of many painters, sculptors and authors, a number of scholars, several diplomats, Goethe's only son, and Antonio Gramsci, a founding father of European Communism, to name only a few. It is hard to think of another urban site quite so glorious. Its towering cypress trees and abundant flowers and greenery shelter a heterogeneity of elaborate and eclectic graves and monuments, nestled on a slope in the shadows of the Pyramid of Cestius and adjacent to a section of Rome's ancient Aurelian wall. Very good condition. Cfr.