2-716-645 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Triangular Forum, Ruins of Pompeii', Italy, c1909. Open public space in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, (near near modern Naples), which was destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. One of a set of stereocard views by George Rose, boxed as "Studies through the Stereoscope", to be viewed on a Sun Sculpture stereoscope made by Underwood & Underwood. [The Rose Stereograph Company, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington & London, c1909]