A marble vase placed on a pedestal on top of a sarcophagus; and two other vases. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.

  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
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[between 1768 and 1778]
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757037i
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A marble vase placed on a pedestal on top of a sarcophagus; and two other vases. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The central monument is composed of several pieces in different genres. Of the left and right vases, in the Palmerston collection at Broadlands, Hampshire, the right one has carved masks and a set of Pan pipes

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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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Al signor Giovanni Taylor cavaliere inglese amatore delle belle arti in atto d'ossequio il caval.re Gio. Batt.a Piranesi D.D.D. Monumento antico che si vede in Inghilterra presso il sig.r Giorgio Aufrere cavaliere inglese nella sua villa a Chelsea. In Inghilterra presso sua Ecc.za Milord Palmerston. In Inghilterra presso sua Ecc.za Milord Palmerston. Cavaliere 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, p. 35 (George René Aufrère, merchant of Chelsea); pp. 733-735 (Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston); p. 931 (dedicated to John Taylor, d. 1786, of Lyssons Hall, Jamaica, in Rome in 1773)

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Wellcome Collection 757037i

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