AN EXCEPTIONAL MICROMOSAIC PANEL DEPICTING A WATERFALL
ROMAN, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Possibly depicting the S. Rocco Bridge over the waterfall at Tivoli; within an iron frame and back and set in its original gilt wood and stucco frame.

18 x 14¼ in. (44.5 x 36.2 cm.) the mosaic only

This object compares to a micromosaic by Giacome Raffaelli The Temple of Sibyl at Tivoli and a Waterfall from the Anichkov Palace, today in the collection of the Hermitage (R. Grieco, Micromosaic Roman, Rome, 2007, p. 151. pl. 372); and a View of Tivoli by Giovanni Morelli in the Gilbert Collection (J. H. Gabriel, The Gilbert Collection, Micromosaics, London, 2000, pp.102-103, no. 47).