Graftombe tegenover de Sint-Sebastiaan buiten de Muren te Rome, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1756 - c. 1757

Title(s)

Graftombe tegenover de Sint-Sebastiaan buiten de Muren te Rome
Veduta interna della Camera sepolcrale dirimpetto alla Chiesa di S. Sebastiano fuori delle Mura (title on object)
Archeologische vondsten in en rond Rome (series title)
Le Antichità Romane (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-39.457

Catalogue reference

• Focillon 266
• Wilton-Ely 401

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Gezicht op de resten van een graftombe tegenover de Sint-Sebastiaan buiten de Muren te Rome. Titel in ondermarge. Genummerd boven: Tom. II. / XLIV.

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 372 mm × width 505 mm × height 48 mm × width 507 mm

What

• grave, tomb
• ruin of a building ~ architecture
• landscape with ruins

Where

• Sint-Sebastiaan buiten de Muren
• Rome

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Giovanni Battista Piranesi : the complete etchings, John Wilton-Ely, p. 453, cat.nr. 401
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi, p. 305, cat.nr. 266