Remembering the End of Eternity: 19th Century Architectural Mementos of Ancient Ruined Rome, 2021

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VII. Bronze Models of the Temples of Saturn, Vespasian, and Castor and Pollux, Trajan’s Column i.Trajan’s Column, 10-3/4” h., c 1880 patinated bronze, marble ii.Temple of Castor and Pollux, 5-3/8” h., c 1880 patinated bronze, alabaster base, (l) Temple of Saturn, 5-1/4”h., c 1880, patinated bronze, giallo antico marble base, (center) Temple of Vespasian, 5-3/8” h., c 1880 patinated bronze, alabaster base (r) (group of 3) See Pricing

If, in about 1880, you’d visited Rome, keen on returning home with some souvenirs, but constrained budget-wise, you might have entered the likely small shop, located on a tourist thoroughfare, offering these mementos. Found together, as a group of miniatures, we imagine they’ve not parted company over the course of the last 140 years.

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