The "Scala Regia" in the Vatican, Rome

View taken from Italy Illustrated, a complete History of the past and present condition of the Italian States by W. C. Stafford and Charles Ball, published in London in 1860 and 1861.

The work contains views by the main English artists of the Grand Tour period, re-proposing engravings also from thirty years earlier already included in other publications.

Copper engraving, finely hand-colored, in excellent condition.