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Pencil drawing of ruined columns and walls along a dusty street in Pompeii, Italy, on tan paper.

Pompeii, Italy

A pencil drawing on tan paper shows broken columns, low walls and fragmentary structures lining a dusty street receding toward the right. Light wash and faint warm tones fill the sky, and a handwritten inscription appears in the lower left corner.

Artist
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg
Date
Medium
pencil on paper
Source
Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Size
2880 × 2226 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum) releases this image under CC0 (undated).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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