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
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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

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

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