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The three drawings of the Mausoleum of Augustus (28 BC) were made by the architect Reginald Annandale Cordingley during his Rome Scholarship at the British School (1923-26). They are part of a set of twelve actual state and reconstruction drawings and watercolours he made of the monument and its environs in the Campus Martius.

This remarkable plan shows the network of streets, buildings, and courtyards that still surrounded the Mausoleum in 1925, as well as the staircases and seating of the early twentieth century auditorium built into the ancient rotunda. Cordingley’s label ‘Anfiteatro Correr [sic] now the “Augusteo”’ references the earlier and presumably then still used name of the concert hall. The drawing is executed in black and red ink, the former shows the known remains of the Mausoleum, including parts only accessible through cellars and tunnels, as indicated in the accompanying key. Also marked is the now destroyed Confraternita di San Rocco and Palazzo Rospigliosi.

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