Cloaca Maxima te Rome, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748 - 1778

Title(s)

Cloaca Maxima te Rome
Veduta delle antiche Sostrizioni fatte da Tarquinio Superbo dette il Bel Lido (...) (title on object)
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-39.420

Catalogue reference

• Focillon 841
• Wilton-Ely 258
• Hind (Piranesi) 125-1(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Gezicht op de Cloaca Maxima, het grote riool in Rome dat in de rivier de Tiber uitmondt. Titel en lijst met verklarende letters in ondermarge.

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 450 mm × width 673 mm

What

• sewers
• river
• city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions

Where

• Rome
• Tiber
• Cloaca Maxima

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Giovanni Battista Piranesi : the complete etchings, John Wilton-Ely, p. 301, cat.nr. 258
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi, p. 351, cat.nr. 841
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi : a critical study, Arthur Mayger Hind, p. 71, cat.nr. 125