Tombes van Licinianus Piso en de Cornelius familie langs de Via Appia, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748 - 1778

Title(s)

Tombes van Licinianus Piso en de Cornelius familie langs de Via Appia
Gezichten op Rome (series title)
Vedute di Roma disegnate ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi architetto Ve(nez)iano (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-39.367

Catalogue reference

• Focillon 777
• Wilton-Ely 205
• Hind (Piranesi) 72-1(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Gezicht op de resten van de tombes van Licinianus Piso en de Cornelius familie langs de Via Appia Antica. Verklarende letters op blok midden onder.

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Place

Rome

Dating

1748 - 1778

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 410 mm × width 612 mm

What

• city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions
• landscape with ruins
• ruin of a building ~ architecture
• grave, tomb

Where

• Via Appia Antica

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Giovanni Battista Piranesi : the complete etchings, John Wilton-Ely, p. 248, cat.nr. 205
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi : a critical study, Arthur Mayger Hind, p. 59, cat.nr. 72
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi, p. 343, cat.nr. 777