Graftombe aan de Via Cassia, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1756 - c. 1757

Title(s)

Graftombe aan de Via Cassia
Veduta di un Sepolcro fuori di Porta del Popolo sull' antica Via Cassia, cinque miglia lontano da Roma; chiamato da Volgo: il Sepolcro di Nerone (...) (title on object)
Archeologische vondsten in en rond Rome (series title)
Le Antichità Romane (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-39.510

Catalogue reference

• Focillon 299
• Wilton-Ely 434

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Gezicht op de resten van een graftombe aan de Via Cassia (Tombe van Nero genoemd), vijf mijl buiten Rome. Titel en tekst in ondermarge. Genummerd boven: Tom. III. / XIV.

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 609 mm × width 403 mm

What

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

Where

• Rome
• Via Cassia

Acquisition

unknown 2006

Copyright

Public domain

• Giovanni Battista Piranesi : the complete etchings, John Wilton-Ely, p. 486, cat.nr. 434
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi, p. 307, cat.nr. 299