Basso Rilievo, il qual' è scolpito sulla Circonferenza del seguente Vaso Antico di Marmo, esistente in Rome nel Palazzo della Villa Medici sul Monte Pincio . . . (Low Relief Carved on the Circumference of an Antique Marble Vase, Housed in Rome in the Palace of the Villa Medici on Monte Pincio . . . ), from Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi (Vases, Candelabras, Cippi, Sarcophagi, Tripods, Lamps, and Antique Ornaments)

1778

Medium: Etching
Dimensions: platemark: 17 1/2 × 27 7/16 in. (44.5 × 69.7 cm)
sheet: 20 1/2 × 29 11/16 in. (52 × 75.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Doolittle in memory of her sister Miss Helen Wells Seymour
Accession Number: 1953.48.11
Geography: Italy
Culture: Italian
Period: 18th century
Classification: Prints
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Bibliography

Anne Leonard et al., The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700–1900, exh. cat. (Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2011), 47, fig. 26

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Additional information

Object/Work type

etchings

Signed lower right, in plate: Cav. Piranesi F.

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