Rome: the Colosseum and the arch of Constantine. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1760.

  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Date:
[1760]
Reference:
2928368i
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Description

Numerous characteristic Piranesian figures are talking and gesticulating among the ruins

Publication/Creation

Roma [Rome] (al Corso) : Si vendono dai SS.ri Bouchard e Gravier mercanti libraj ..., [1760]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image and border 38.3 x 54.2 cm

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Lettering

Veduta dell'Arco di Costantino, e dell'Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo ... Piranesi del. e scolp.

Edition

[Hind's state II, with imprint of Bouchard e Gravier].

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. 55, no. 56 (gives date as 1760)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2928368i

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