A lone horse and covered cart pause on the sun-dappled Via Appia Antica, the ancient road's stone paving stretching into the distance while soaring Italian cypresses frame the massive drum of the Tomb of Cecilia Metella — one of Rome's most iconic ancient monuments, built circa 50 BCE for the daughter-in-law of Marcus Licinius Crassus. The halftone-printed card, dated 1934 by the printer's imprint, captures an unhurried pastoral moment that was already vanishing from the Eternal City; a carter sits atop the wagon, seemingly indifferent to the millennia of history looming behind him. The crenellated medieval battlements added by the Caetani family in the 14th century crown the Roman drum, creating the hybrid silhouette that fascinated Grand Tour travelers from Byron to Goethe.