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Title
Date(s)
- [c. 1750-1760] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 illustration: black and white; engraving; 54.3 x 39.5 cm on 59.1 x 43.6 cm sheet
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Italian engraver and architect.
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Scope and content
'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.
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- Italian