Rome: the Colosseum and the arch of Constantine. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1760.
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
- Date:
- 1835-1839
- Reference:
- 2928369i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Numerous characteristic Piranesian figures are talking and gesticulating among the ruins
Publication/Creation
[Rome] (a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinità de' Monti) : Presso l'autore [Piranesi]
[Paris] : [Firmin Didot], [between 1835 and 1839]
Physical description
1 print : etching ; platemark 40.9 x 55.3 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Veduta dell'Arco di Costantino, e dell'Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo ... Piranesi del. scolp.
Bears numbers: "784 32" (top right), "22 IIII" (bottom right)
Edition
[Hind's state VI, published by Firmin-Didot, Paris].
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, p. 55, no. 56 (gives date of design as 1760)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2928369i
Type/Technique
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores