Original steel engraving with the fountain of the Numicius, in Latium, among the reed beds, with buffaloes standing in the water and two riders on the bank beneath a great stone pine. The lettering is trilingual - "Italie / Italia / Italien" and "Fontaine de Numicius / Fuente de Numicio / Quelle des Numicius" - proper to a nineteenth-century French geographical encyclopedia also issued in Spanish and German.
Original steel engraving with the fountain of the Numicius, in Latium, among the reed beds, with buffaloes standing in the water and two riders on the bank beneath a great stone pine. The lettering is trilingual - "Italie / Italia / Italien" and "Fontaine de Numicius / Fuente de Numicio / Quelle des Numicius" - proper to a nineteenth-century French geographical encyclopedia also issued in Spanish and German.
Medium: Steel engraving
Date: 19th century
Source: Illustrated French geographical encyclopedia, print no. 17
Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.4 in (20 x 13.8 cm)
Condition: Fair; mounted on paper, with foxing scattered through the margins; the image remains clean