Baths of Caracalla, Rome. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1765.

  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Date:
[1765]
Reference:
2008585i
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Description

The ruined Antonine Baths (Thermae antoninianae, Baths of Caracalla) labelled with letters A-G and populated by small figures

Publication/Creation

[Roma [Rome]] : [Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de' Monti], [1765]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 44.2 x 69.5 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Rovine della Terme Antoniniane. Consistenti nella cella soleare…G. Rovine d'una delle accademie. Cavalier Piranesi f. Bears numbers: 788. 36

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. 76 (gives date as 1765)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2008585i

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