The Baths of Caracalla and Two Capitals from the Villa Mattei in Rome

On the lower part of this drawing (now cut in half) Knip wrote ‘First sheet of the three marked Q’. Inscriptions like this are found on a number of his drawings. It was the artist’s way of indicating that two or three sheets formed a cohesive group. The drawings can sometimes be joined up to form a continuous panorama, as is the case with this view from the Villa Mattei (now Villa Celimontana) in Rome.