The "temple of Tosse" (tussis, cough), Tivoli: interior. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1764.

  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Date:
[1764?]
Reference:
2009200i
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Description

'The so-called "Temple of the Cough" is probably a tomb, sometimes conjectured to be that of the Turcia or Tossia family'--Hind, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

In Roma [Rome] : presso l'autore, [1764?]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 63.3 x 46.8 cm

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Lettering

Veduta interna del tempio della Tosse costruito da mattoni e di tufi…ne'tempi bassi. . Piranesi F The text is engraved as if carved on the side of a large slab of stone in the foreground, with a trompe l'oeil rock casting a shadow across it

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, no. 70 (gives date as 1764)

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Wellcome Collection 2009200i

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