Rome: the Colosseum and the arch of Constantine. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1760.
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
- Date:
- [1760]
- Reference:
- 2928368i
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About this work
Description
Numerous characteristic Piranesian figures are talking and gesticulating among the ruins
Publication/Creation
Roma [Rome] (al Corso) : Si vendono dai SS.ri Bouchard e Gravier mercanti libraj ..., [1760]
Physical description
1 print : etching ; image and border 38.3 x 54.2 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Veduta dell'Arco di Costantino, e dell'Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo ... Piranesi del. e scolp.
Edition
[Hind's state II, with imprint of Bouchard e Gravier].
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 as 1760)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2928368i
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores