city-baked

Updated: May 18, 2025

Here reposed a herd of buffaloes; there a little drove of swine; yonder stood a row of carts; and in the midst of these noways picturesque objects rose the gray arch of Titus. At its base sat a beggar; while an artist, at a little distance, was sketching it with the calotype. A peasant was traversing the Via Sacra, bearing to his home a supply of city-baked bread.

James Aitken Wylie - Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber: Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge