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  • Saint Gregory the Great: elected pope, he receives obeisance from the cardinals. Engraving by S.C. Miger, 1770, after C. van Loo.
  • A marble tripod on a base: perspective and plan. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
  • A marble vase sculpted with bacchic revels. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • The pope takes possession of his office: the procession to St. John Lateran. Etching by B. Picart, 1722.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with several assistants, selling their wares to a small audience in Rome. Etching by W. Unger after D. Helmbreker.
  • Christians in the catacombs celebrate the communion, threatened by Roman soldiers who are descending the stairs behind them. Lithograph after A. Leloir.
  • An urn. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
  • Temple of Vesta or Fortuna Virilis, Rome. Engraving.
  • Church and Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome: panoramic views. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1750, after G.B. Piranesi.
  • Church of St. Ignatius, Jesuit Pharmacy Hospital College, Rome: with a Benedictine convent and St. Mauro's monument. Line engraving after O. Grassi.
  • The Caelian hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Saint Gregory the Great wearing papal dress is standing by the Tiber; Castel Sant'Angelo and Saint Peter's in Rome in the background. Engraving by A. Hogenberg after D. Teniers, 16--.
  • Saint Helen in front of the Basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome. Line engraving by T. de Leu.
  • A marble vase. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
  • Galileo Galilei at his trial by the Inquisition in Rome in 1633. Photograph of a painting.
  • Pope Sixtus IV being shown the cadavers of dead illegitimate children picked out of the Tiber, and deciding to reform the law which allowed their infanticide. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a freso painting.
  • A life class in Rome with a model posed as a crucified man with an écorché figure to the left. Drawing by A. Bianchini, 1902.
  • Itinerant medicine vendors in Rome. Oil painting attributed to Dirk Helmbreker.
  • Musicians behind the scenes at a contest in the Colosseum. Etching by L. Ademollo, ca. 1837.
  • Sanatorio Mussolini, Rome; bird's eye view. Process print.
  • Church of St. Bartholomew, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy: site of the Roman temple of Aesculapius. Photograph by Peter Johnston-Saint, 1930.
  • The Palatine hill, Rome, seen from the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Above, a seated woman representing Latium (Lazio) or Rome; below, a triton, a river god and a winged woman, representing the Tiber. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1671.
  • Temple of Aesculapius (in ruins), Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy: the boat-shaped exterior with visible carved serpent and defaced head of Aesculapius. Photograph by Peter Johnston-Saint, 1929.
  • The emperor Constantine digging the foundations of St. Peter's Basilica. Etching by P. de Balliu after P. van Lint after P.P. Drei, 1637.
  • Giacomo Cenci is executed in Rome for the killing of his father Count Cenci, by being struck on the head with a mallet (mazzolatura). Etching, ca. 1850.
  • Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome: skulls and skeletons of the friars arranged in arches and columns around the walls of the Convento dei Cappuccini. Photograph.
  • Saint Helen: the mausoleum of Saint Helena in Rome. Engraving by G.B. Piranesi.
  • A terracotta urn. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.