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Rome: view across the River Tiber, showing the Temple of Vesta and the campanile of S. Maria in Cosmedin. Photograph, 1880/1910?

Young men bathing naked in the Tiber. Process print after Georges Paul Leroux, 1909.

Castel Sant'Angelo (mausoleum of Hadrian), Rome: as seen from the river. Line engraving by F. Morelli, 1796.

A print of the painting "Les baigneurs du Tibre" by Georges Paul Leroux, where several young men are bathing on the edge of the river. A Paris Salon painting of 1909, which would appear to carry an intentional homoerotic charge

James Gardiner Collection: unlabelled photograph album.

In the foreground are people fishing and a man walking his dog

1 print : line engraving, with etching ; platemark 36.6 x 48.2 cm, image 30.5 x 44.3 cm

Left, fruit trees, and men and women in conversation. Right, the Tiber and a view to the countryside

1 print : etching ; platemark 43.5 x 62.4 cm

The Aventine hill, Rome, seen from the Capitol. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

1 print : line engraving, with etching ; platemark 36.7 x 48 cm

Castel Sant'Angelo (mausoleum of Hadrian), Rome, seen from the river. Line engraving by F. Morelli, 1796.

8 unnumbered pages, 150 pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

De aqua Tiberina : opus quidem novum, sed ut omnibus qui hac aqua utuntur utile, ita & necessarium / Alexandro Trajano Petronio authore.

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Tiber River (Italy)

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Young men bathing naked in the Tiber. Process print after Georges Paul Leroux, 1909.

Castel Sant'Angelo (mausoleum of Hadrian), Rome: as seen from the river. Line engraving by F. Morelli, 1796.

The Aventine hill, Rome, seen from the Capitol. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Castel Sant'Angelo (mausoleum of Hadrian), Rome, seen from the river. Line engraving by F. Morelli, 1796.

De aqua Tiberina : opus quidem novum, sed ut omnibus qui hac aqua utuntur utile, ita & necessarium / Alexandro Trajano Petronio authore.

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Tiber River (Italy)

Images

Catalogue

Young men bathing naked in the Tiber. Process print after Georges Paul Leroux, 1909.

Castel Sant'Angelo (mausoleum of Hadrian), Rome: as seen from the river. Line engraving by F. Morelli, 1796.

The Aventine hill, Rome, seen from the Capitol. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Castel Sant'Angelo (mausoleum of Hadrian), Rome, seen from the river. Line engraving by F. Morelli, 1796.

De aqua Tiberina : opus quidem novum, sed ut omnibus qui hac aqua utuntur utile, ita & necessarium / Alexandro Trajano Petronio authore.

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