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

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.