Tempio di Venere. - The temple of Venus in the southwestern area of the Pompeii Forum with two traveling visitors, in the background of Vesuvius. Gouache on cardboard. Illustration 27,5 x 41 cm. With painted frame strip under glass in black, with brass bars inlaid wooden profile strip with four brass decorative buttons (with few scratches) 39 x 52 cm. Italy around 1830. "There has been a lot of disaster in the world, but little that would have made the descendants so much joy," Johann Wolfgang von Goethe summed up his experience of the excavations of the 79 n. The city of Pompeii was buried together in his "Italian Journey". 3. ==References== This magnificent view of the once huge temple of Venus, which is visited by two travellers - as well as Goethe and Tischbein - could serve as an illustration. – Hardly stained, few minor traces of usage, in excellent nuanced color. Very pretty framed in the style of time, not framed, shipping only without frame.