The Birth of the Grand Tour: TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND DESCRIPTIONS FROM SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ROME.

The article focuses on topographical sketches and descriptions from seventeenth-century Rome by Claude Lorrain and Richard Lassels. Topics discussed include Campo Vaccino landscape by British artist J. M. W. Turner completed in 1839; the Arch of Titus, a triumphal arch erected to him upon his victory over the Jews; and the architecture of triumphal arch of Constantin the Great.