The Piazza del Popolo Obelisk, from the Circus Maximus, 1833 (etching with brown wash)

Obelisque de la place du Peuple, du Cirque Maxime; Engraved by Pietro Fontana (1762-1837); from 'Recueil des vues au bister dessinees et lavees par Callimachus, Souvenirs d'antiquites et curiosites de Rome et des environs, Deblayements et reparations du Pape Pie VII'; Pope Pius VII (1742-1823) Papacy (1800-23) Count Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti; Brought from Heliopolos in 10 BC by Augustus; The hieroglyphs celebrate the pharaohs Rameses II and Merenptah (13th-12th century BC); Erected by Domenico Fontana (1543-1607) in 1589, as part of the urban plan of Sixtus V; The four lion fountains by Giuseppe Valadier (1762-1839) were added in 1818;