The Porta Maggiore (Porta Prenestina), Rome. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1775.

  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Date:
[1775]
Reference:
2008586i
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Description

The aqueduct carrying water over the Via Prenestina with various parts labelled 1-5. The text describing the arch seems to be part of the scene, with figures leaning against the block on which it is carved

Publication/Creation

[Roma [Rome]] : Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de' Monti, [1775]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 49.2 x 72 cm

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Lettering

Veduta del monumento eretto dall'Imperador Tito Vespasiano per aver ristaurati gl' aquedotti dell' acque dell'Aniene nuovo ... 5. Via Prenestina. Cavalier Piranesi F. Bears numbers: 733. 49.

References note

A.M. Hind, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: a critical study, with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome, New York 1922, no. 119 (gives date as 1775)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2008586i

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