Postcard of the Vittoriano and Colosseum in Rome owned by Dick Howard: Museum Object and Cultural History
Postcard of the Vittoriano and Colosseum in Rome owned by Dick Howard: Date: ca. 1960. Owned by: Dick Howard, American, 1935 - 1967. Manufactured by: Unidentified.
The object in the museum catalogue
A color picture postcard featuring an aerial view of part of the city of Rome, Italy on the front. The view looks southeast with a number of notable Roman landmarks visible. The most prominent landmark is the Vittoriano, a large, white colonnaded structure in the foreground at the lower right quadrant of the postcard. The photo looks down the Via dei Fori Imperiali to the Colosseum, which appears in the upper left quadrant of the card. Also visible are the Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano Church, Palazzo Valentini, and Trajan's Column (lower left), Capitoline Hill and the Roman Forum (behind the Vittoriano). The image is filled with the cityscape of Rome. The image is bordered in a narrow white edge.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1960
- Owned by: Dick Howard, American, 1935 - 1967
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Type: picture postcards
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 4 1/4 x 6 in. (10.8 x 15.2 cm)
- Place depicted: Rome, Roma, Italy, Europe
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Travel
- Object number: 2012.140.6.5
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Howard Family
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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