The Roman forum, Rome. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1772.

  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Date:
[between 1835 and 1839]
Reference:
2009162i
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Description

The Forum romanum, or Campo vaccino, with the temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the foreground l., the temple of Castor and Pollux, foreground r., and the Colosseum in the distance (Hind, loc. cit.)

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : [Firmin-Didot], [between 1835 and 1839]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 48.1 x 72 cm

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Lettering

Veduta di Campo Vaccino. 1. Colonne del tempio detto di Giove Statore ... 11. Tazza antica di granito di un sol pezzo situata nel luogo dove una volta era il lago Curzio. Cavalier Piranesi del. e inc. Bears number: 766.14

Edition

[Hind's state IV].

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. 65, no. 100 (gives date as 1772)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2009162i

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