Second Frontispiece of Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane Yale University Art Gallery

1756

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Medium: Etching
Dimensions: platemark: 15 15/16 × 21 3/16 in. (40.5 × 53.8 cm)
sheet: 18 1/4 × 23 3/4 in. (46.4 × 60.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Doolittle in memory of her sister Miss Helen Wells Seymour
Accession Number: 1953.48.6
Geography: Italy
Culture: Italian
Period: 18th century
Classification: Prints
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Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

etchings

Inscriptions

UR in plate: II Tom IV; on architrave in center: VINDICIBVS. ET. PROTECTORIEVS/BONARVM. ARTIVM/ I.B. PIRANESVS. (G.B. Piranesi [dedicates this work] to the Campions and Defenders of the Fine Arts)

Signed

BL in plate: Gio. Batta. Piranesi invent. ed incise

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