Lion Attacking a Horse
Rudolph Ruzicka American, born Czechoslovakia
Related author Fanny Davenport Rogers MacVeagh American
Not on view
This print shows an ancient marble group installed in the upper garden of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, next to Rome's Campidoglio. One of 43 wood engravings that Ruzicka made to illustrate "Fountains of Papal Rome," 1915, this image appears on page 56. Three others in the book relate to sculptural fountains on the Campidoglio (Metropolitan Museum proofs of the others are 18.24.10 (a an oblique view of the piazza), 18.24.41 (a view of the Senate Building with the fountain at its base), and 18.25.50 (the river god known as "Marforio" in the Capitoline Museum entrance court).
Ruzicka went to Rome in 1913 with the manuscript of Mrs. Charles MacVeagh's "Fountains of Papal Rome" in hand as a guide. When published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York in 1915 the book contained fourteen full-page images and twenty-nine page headings and vignettes. The artist later described the book as a "quite remarkable work...still the most authoritative book there is on the subject in the English language."
