Foro Romano.

View finely etched, executed with the delineato technique, printed on contemporary paper, in excellent condition.

Some plates bear the signature of Gaetano Cottafavi.

Tommaso Cuccioni is one of the first and most renowned Roman photographers of the nineteenth century whose date of death (1864), but not his date of birth. His initial activity, however, was that of engraver and chalcographer, devoting himself to the trade of prints, with a store first in Via della Croce, n. 88, and then in Via Condotti, n. 18, as can be seen from the repertoires of the time of Gregory XVI who indicate him as a dealer of prints, paintings and fine art objects. In the Forties, together with the sale of chalcographic prints, he also began the sale of daguerreotypes and calotypes that he did not yet execute personally, but he commissioned to other Roman professionals of the origins and especially to G. Caneva, his great friend. Only after 1851, that is after the finalization of the wet collodion process, Cuccioni began his new and very lucky career as a photographer because only then, and not before, photography really set itself as an alternative means - with respect to the other reproductive techniques of the past - in the field of image production and reproduction.