This print of Ponte Sisto viewed looking downstream, forms a pair with the upstream view, Plate 88. In the right foreground the same barchetta (cable ferry) which appears in Plate 87A heads for the same stair which winds down to the river from a street (the modern Salita del Buon Pastore) defining the northern edge of Villa Chigi/Farnese (1). In this print Vasi shows an end-on view of the same villa which he depicted from the side in Plate 88A. Beyond the bridge we see a section of Trastevere dominated by the pointed bell tower of S. Crisogono (4) Plate 119, and bounded by a sharp curve in the river which separates it from the distant Aventine hill. Crowning that hill is the Early Christian church of S. Sabina (3) Plate 129. On the far left the clock tower of the Collegio per i Sacerdoti (2) located at the end of Via Giulia, is visible above a group of riverside buildings which were all demolished in the late 19th century for the building of the river walls.
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