Rom, Spanische Stiege (Rome, Spanish Stairs)

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1932  

etching and aquatint printed in colors 

16 1/8 x 14 1/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

8 of 50  

pencil titled, in lower left; also inscribed at lower sheet edge: "printed a 10"; bears the red FPC collector's stamp in the lower left; from the collection of Friedl Pollak 

No. 114 on the checklist of titles included in Pollak's exhibition at the University of California, April 3 - May 15, 1949 

unidentified cream wove 

published 

artist 

22553 

$500.00 

The Spanish steps were built at the beginning of the 18th century by the architect Francesco de Sanctis and is now one of the most famous parts of Rome. The 138 steps connect the lower Spanish Piazza di Spagna with the upper Piazza Trinita dei Monti which is dominated by Trinita dei Monti church.