Painting and Sculpture

Mendicants of the Roman Campagna

Mendicants of the Roman Campagna is an 1840 genre painting by the English artist Edward Villiers Rippingille. The oil on canvas depicts two women and a child, beggars or mendicants, reclining amid classical ruins in the Roman Campagna, the countryside surrounding Rome in Lazio. The painting is signed and dated on a stone at lower left, "E V Rippingille ROMA 1840 / London 1844". It is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London, where it is displayed in the British Galleries.

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• ▸Chaim Koppelman
• ▸Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England
• ▸La Siesta, Memory of Spain

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