A marble vase. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.

  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Date:
[between 1768 and 1778]
Reference:
756912i
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Description

Around the body of the vase, bucrania linked with festoons

Publication/Creation

[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [between 1768 and 1778]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 39 x 26 cm

Contributors

Lettering

In Inghilterra presso l'ill.ma sig.ra Jane Sijnnot dama inglese. Cavalier Piranesi del. ed 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. 192 and 922 (Jane Seton Synnot, wife of Sir Walter Synnot and sister-in-law of Thomas Cayley)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 756912i

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