Frontispice met een fantasievoorstelling van de Via Appia Antica, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1756 - c. 1757

Title(s)

Frontispice met een fantasievoorstelling van de Via Appia Antica
Frontispice van volume II van 'Le Antichità Romane'
Antiquus bivii viarum appiae et ardeatinae prospectus ad II lapidam extra portam capenam (title on object)
Archeologische vondsten in en rond Rome (series title)
Le Antichità Romane (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-39.428

Catalogue reference

• Focillon 225
• Wilton-Ely 360

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Genummerd rechtsboven: II. Tom. II.

Artist

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

Place

Rome

Dating

c. 1756 - c. 1757

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 398 mm × width 637 mm

What

• landscape with ruins
• street
• sarcophagus
• temple, shrine ~ Roman religion
• piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Where

• Via Appia Antica

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Giovanni Battista Piranesi : the complete etchings, John Wilton-Ely, p. 411, cat.nr. 360
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi, p. 304, cat.nr. 225