Frontispice met een voorstelling van het Circus van Mars langs de Via Appia Antica, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1756 - c. 1757

Title(s)

Frontispice met een voorstelling van het Circus van Mars langs de Via Appia Antica
Frontispice van volume III van 'Le Antichità Romane'
Antiquus circi martial. cum monum. adiacentia prospectus ad viam appiam (title on object)
Archeologische vondsten in en rond Rome (series title)
Le Antichità Romane (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-39.501

Catalogue reference

• Focillon 287
• Wilton-Ely 422

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Genummerd rechtsboven: II. Tom. III.

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 400 mm × width 603 mm

What

• city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions
• circus ring
• piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture
• obelisk, needle
• column, pillar ~ architecture

Where

• Rome
• Via Appia Antica

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Giovanni Battista Piranesi : the complete etchings, John Wilton-Ely, p. 474, cat.nr. 422
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi, p. 306, cat.nr. 287