A marble vase on a pedestal with 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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[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [between 1768 and 1778]

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1 print : etching ; platemark 53 x 39 cm

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Vaso e piedestallo antichi di marmo che si vedono nel museo dell autore. In Inghilterra presso sua ecc.za Milord Palmerston. Vaso antico che si vede nel museo dell'autore. All' illustrissima signora Maria Udnij dama inglese. In segno d'ossequio il cavaliere Gio. Batt.a Piranesi. Cavalier Piranesi del. e 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, pp. 733-735 (Palmerston), 963-964 (in 1778 Piranesi dedicated two plates in his Vasi, candelabri, cippi to Robert and one to Maria Udny.)

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Wellcome Collection 756353i

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