The Aqua Virgo aqueduct, taking water from the Alban hills to the centre of the Rome: elevation and plan of the aqueduct, and details of the lead piping. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1762.

1762

1 print : etching ; plate 36.1 x 21 cm

A et B orthographia utriusque lateris arcuum ductus Aquae Virginis a specu principe ad Hadriani thermas, effossorum prope aedem S. Ignatii. Piranesi, f. ... Lettering continues with the rest of the key Bears number: Tab. XXX

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. 85 (gives word in title of collection as Campius)

Wellcome Collection 22501i