A View of Trajan's Forum, Rome

A View of Trajan's Forum, Rome is an 1821 landscape painting by the British artist Charles Lock Eastlake.^[1][2] It depicts a view of Trajan's Forum in Rome, dominated by Trajan's Column. The scene features both remains of Ancient Rome and much later buildings. Eastlake lived in Rome from 1816 to 1830, at a time when British artists were able to visit the city following the end of the Napoleonic Wars. He produced a number of views of the city, some of which he sent back to exhibit at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibitions.^[3]

A View of Trajan's Forum, Rome
Version in the Yale Center for British Art
Artist	Charles Lock Eastlake
Year	1821
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape
Dimensions	61.9 cm × 51.1 cm (24.4 in × 20.1 in)
Location	Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

Today it is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut.^[4] An alternative version of the work from the same year, covering a wider view of the Forum is now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.^[5]