The photograph reproduced here shows a side view of the port of Ripetta, architectural work of the most significant eighteenth century of Rome, performed in 1703 by architect and engraver Alessandro Specchi. The port was destroyed to allow the construction of the embankment and the consequent advancement of the bank of the Tiber. The works for the accommodation of the banks of the Tiber River began in 1877, pursuant to law enacted June 6, 1875, and took place mostly in the decade between 1883 and 1892, finally ending in 1926.

The port of Ripetta, whose dramatic and curvilinear plant was resumed in 1723 by De Sanctis for the steps of Trinità of Monti, was one of the eariest and most severe losses that the city of Rome has had to undergo to adapt to the modern role of capital. The photofraph is contained in one of two volumes entitled "Il Tevere" (the Tiber). State earlier in the work of defense, the one dedicated to the right bank and the other to the left, in total ninety pictures documenting the banks of the river before the construction of the embankments (Side view of the port of Ripetta - 1865).

These volumes, which will be added to third on the shores photographed immediately after the settlement, were commissioned by the Civil Engineers to be kept in the Capitoline collections. In much the takeover is due to the firm composed by Antonio D'Alessandri and his brother Paolo Francesco, leader of photography Roman nineteenth century.