"Porticus of Octavia, Rome" by Louis C. Rosenberg, (Amer.,1890-1983) Crayon Resist on cream wove similli vellum

on cream wove similli vellum paper

9-3/8 x 11-3/4

4 of 10 plus a few AP's

signed in pencil by both James Smillie and by Asher B

Melanson was a well known Providence painter and printmaker who often worked from imagination

"Porticus of Octavia, Rome" by Louis C. Rosenberg, (Amer.,1890-1983) Crayon Resist on cream wove similli vellumLouis C. Rosenberg, Amer., (1890 1983), Porticus of Octavia, Rome, Etching and Drypoint, ca. 1928, Ed. of. 375, for the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, 6 5 8x 5, signed in pencil, on cream laid paper. The Portico of Octavia was constructed ca. 27 BC by Augustus and named for his sister. It still stands in the Circus Flaminius in Rome.