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These views inside the Colosseum demonstrate the ancient workings of the stadium. The amphitheatre was designed with tiers of seating for 50,000 spectators around a central elliptical arena. Below the wooden arena floor, there was a complex set of rooms and passageways for wild beasts and equipment required for staging the spectacles. Titus famously inaugurated the Colosseum in the year 80 A.D. with one hundred days of celebrations. During this festival, it is estimated that thousands of men and animals were killed in 'The Games'.

Robert Henry Cheney (1801-1866)

The Colosseum, Rome (illustrated); and A vaulted arch in the Colosseum, Rome

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Robert Henry Cheney (1801-1866)
The Colosseum, Rome (illustrated); and A vaulted arch in the Colosseum, Rome
the first inscribed and dated 'Coliseum [sic] Rome March 27 1838' (on the reverse of the mount); the second inscribed and dated 'Coliseum [sic] May 20 1838.' (on the reverse of the mount)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out, unframed
14½ x 10¾ in. (37 x 27.3 cm.); and smaller (2)

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