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Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1511 · Item · [c. 1750 - 1760]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Veduta della Villa dell' Emo. Sig.n Card. Alesandro Albani fuori di Porta Salaria'
'Cavalier Piranesi inc.'
'Cities Exhibition 2 [number added in manuscript in pencil] No. 452'

From 'Vedute di Roma' (late 1740's to after 1760) (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, no. 222).

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1528 · Item · [c. 1750-1760]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Veduta degli avanzi di due Triclinj che appartenevano all casa aurea di Nerone, presi erroneamente per i Templi [del] Sole, e della Luna, O d'Iside, e Serapide. [...]'
'G. B. Piranesi Archit. incise'
'Cities Exhibition No. 333'

'4' endorsed on backing in manuscript in pencil in bottom right corner.

'John Mo[ ]on's Trust Engraving No. 19' endorsed in manuscript in pencil on reverse in top margin.

From 'Vedute di Roma' (late 1740s to after 1760) (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, no. 149).

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1515 · Item · [c. 1750-1760]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Veduta del Tempio di Cibele a Piazza della Bocca dell Verità'
'Piranesi Archit. dis. ed. incise'

From 'Vedute di Roma' (late 1740s to after 1760) (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, no. 183).

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1529 · Item · [c. 1750-1760]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Veduta degli Avannzi del Tempio della Pace.'
[Basilica of Maxentius (or Constantine)]
'Piranesi Architetto fec.'

'Ed. Yates' endorsed in bottom right corner in manuscript in pencil.

'[ ]' [monogram endorsed on reverse in bottom right corner in manuscript in pencil.

Watermark (French Lilly in oval) in half of sheet.

Traces of former backing on reverse.

From 'Vedute di Roma' (late 1740s to after 1760) (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, no. 161.
Wilton-Ely lists this engraving with the title "Veduta degli avanzi del Tablino della Casa Aurea di Nerone, detti volgamente il Tempio della Pace", earlier impressions appeared under the title as noted above in the catalogue entry.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
GB 249 T-GED/22/4/29 · Item · No date [after 1760]
Part of Patrick Geddes papers

'Piranesi F.'

'17' endorsed in bottom right corner.

From Opere varie di Architettura (1750 and later), this plate appeared only in editions after 1760 (Wilton-Ely, John, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, cat no.46)

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1539 · Item · [1774-1779]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

Three engravings from G.B. Piranesi's 'Trofeo osia Magnifica Colonna Coclide...' (1774-1779).

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1517 · Item · [after 1839]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Veduta dell'Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo'
'Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinità de Monti'
'Piranesi F.'

'29' and '781' endorsed in top right corner.

'X' endorsed in bottom left corner.

'Regia Calcografia di Roma' embossed with stamp in bottom left corner.

'[ ]' embossed in bottom margin.

'135' [Cities Exhibition] endorsed in bottom right corner in manuscript in pencil.

From 'Vedute di Roma' (late 1740s to after 1760) (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, no. 191).
This print is a later impression made at the Calcografia Nazionale (previously Calcografia Reale) in Rome after 1839 (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 2, appendix no. 781).

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1629 · Item · No date
Part of Italy: Miscellanea
  • Untitled decorative frieze by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
  • 'Design for a monumental Bridge' [Ponte magnifico, Giovanni Battista Piranesi]
  • Tempio Antico (Ancient Temple of Vesta), Giovanni Battista Piranesi
  • Villa Pamphili, Giovanni Battista Piranesi
  • Campidoglio Antico (Ancient cemetery), Giovanni Battista Piranesi
  • 'Designs by Daniel Marot XII. - A Garden Entrance'

Giovanni Battista Piranesi; Daniel Marot.

From unidentified publications.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1628 · Item · No date
Part of Italy: Miscellanea
  • [Untitled]
  • 'An Ancient Roman Circus, near the Appian Way.'
  • 'View of the Pantheon, showing the small turrets added by Bernini, but now removed.'
  • [Untitled]
  • 'Ponte magnifica con Logge, ed Archi eretto da un Imperatore Romano, [...]'
  • [Untitled]
  • 'Arch of Trajana at Ancona'
  • 'The Temple at Paestum'
  • 'Ponte Molle over the Tiber'

From unidentified publications.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1630 · Item · No date
Part of Italy: Miscellanea

.1 Twelve postcards showing reproductions of engravings of Roman architecture, mainly in Rome and by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, mounted on 1 sheet
Various sizes on 52.1 x 64 cm backing

  1. Twelve postcards showing reproductions of engravings of Roman architecture, mainly in Rome and by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, mounted on 1 sheet
    Various sizes on 52.1 x 63.9 cm backing
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1513 · Item · No date
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'Veduta di altra parte della Camera Sepolcrale di L. Arrunzio [...]'
'Piranesi Architetto disegn. e. scolp.'

'Ed Yates' endorsed bottom right corner in manuscript in pencil.

'[ ]' [monogram] endorsed on reverse in bottom right corner.

Watermark (French Lilly in Oval) in left half of sheet.

From 'Le Antichità Roma (1756) (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, no. 367).

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1525 · Item · No date
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'The columns of the Temple of Jupiter Tonans, as seen in the eighteenth century. (From Piranesi's 'La Vedute Romane')'

Reproduction of a Piranesi etching.

Text on the reverse.

From an unidentified publication.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect
Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1527 · Item
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

Three views of Piazza Navona in Rome, mounted on one sheet.

Various authors.

Various dates.

  • 'View of the Church of St Agnes in the Piazza Navona, Rome.'; [Title repreated in French and German]; 'Drawn by G. B. Moore'; 'Engraved by Frederick Smith'; 'London, Published March 1, 1837; by W. B. Cooke [...]'; Frederick Smith after G[ ] B[ ] Moore; 1837; black and white; engraving; 13.6 x 17.1 cm on 19.3 x 24.7 cm sheet.

  • 'Veduta della gran Piazza Navona, ov' era anticamente il famoso Cico Agonal fatto de Aleßsandro Severo, che quivi presso aveva le sue Terme.'; [Title repreated in French]; 'Gio. Acquaroni e P. Parnoni inc. 1825'; 'In Roma presso G. Antonelli in Piaz. di Sciarra N. 233'; 31.5 x 22.4 cm on 38.8 x 30.7 cm sheet; '18' endorsed in top right corner.

  • 'Veduta di Piazza Navona sopra le rovine del Circo Agonale'; 'Piranesi del. sc.'; Giovanni Battista Piranesi; No date [c. 1750-1760]; black and white; engraving; 54.6 x [35.6] cm on [54.8] x [37.4] cm sheet on 55.3 x [38.4] cm cardboard backing; From 'Vedute di Roma' (late 1740s to after 1760) (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, no. 143); Printed image incomplete along top margin, vertical cuts along both smaller ends.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect