Three marble vases and a sarcophagus. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.

  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
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[between 1768 and 1778]
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757006i
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Three marble vases and a sarcophagus. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The central vase is carved with a priest and worshippers sacrificing the suovetaurilia (a boar, a ram and a bull), and is placed on a sarcophagus guarded by winged sphinxes. The left vase is carved with two birds eating grapes or berries, and the right one with acanthus decoration

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[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [between 1768 and 1778]

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1 print : etching ; platemark 53 x 39 cm

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Vaso antico di marmo ornato di bassirilievi rappresentanti il sagrifizio di suovetaurilii ed altri ornamenti allusivi al sagrifizio. Si vede in Inghilterra presso sua Ecc.za Mylord Holland. A, B Vasi antichi di marmo esistenti fra le altre antichità dell'autore. A sua eccellenza Miledi Maria Fox in segno d'ossequio il cavalier G.B. Piranesi. Cavalier Piranesi inc.

References note

John Ingamells, A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 compiled from the Brinsley Ford archive, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 378-379 (Mary Fox, wife of Hon. Stephen Fox, from 1774 2nd Baron Holland); p. 509 (Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland)

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Wellcome Collection 757006i

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