Villa Medici, 1833 (etching with brown wash)

Villa Medicis; Engraved by Pietro Fontana (1762-1837); from 'Recueil des vues au bister dessinees et lavees par Callimachus, Souvenirs d'antiquites et curiosites de Rome et des environs, Deblayements et reparations du Pape Pie VII'; Pope Pius VII (1742-1823) Papacy (1800-23) Count Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti; The palace was built by Annibale Lippi for Cardinal Ricci da Montepulciano c.1540; Bought by Ferdinando dei Medici in 1576; Modified by Bartolomeo Ammannati; The seat of the French Academy since 1803; The fountain was designed in 1589 by Annibale Lippi; The cannon ball in the centre is said to have been shot by Queen Christina of Sweden, from the Castel Sant'Angelo; 16th century garden;