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Antichità Romanae Fuori di Roma Disegnate ed incise da Giambatta Piranesi Architetto Veneziano. Parte Seconda

Print
1748 (published)
Artist/Maker
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (etcher)
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (publisher)
Place of origin
Rome (published)

Print showing the Appian Way, in a volume bound in paper boards.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Architecture
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Antichità Romanae Fuori di Roma Disegnate ed incise da Giambatta Piranesi Architetto Veneziano. Parte Seconda (series title)
  • Pl.19 Parte dell'antica Via Appia (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Etching (Printing Process)
Brief description
Print showing the Appian Way, Rome, from a set of 15 plates entitled 'Antichità Romanae Fuori di Roma Disegnate ed incise da Giambatta Piranesi Architetto Veneziano. Parte Seconda'. Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748.
Physical description
Print showing the Appian Way, in a volume bound in paper boards.
Dimensions
  • Average size of plates in series height: 14cm
  • Average size of plates in series width: 26.7cm
  • Size of volume height: 61cm
  • Size of volume width: 45.7cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.
Style
Italian School
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Lettered with titles, name of engraver etc.)
  • 'L'Archi.' (Lettered on the spine)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Miss H. L. Milne
Object history
This volume contains the book-plate of Richard Penn, 1st Earl Howe (1796-1870).

A set of the later edition, published between 1778 and 1792 in a different numerical order and with two additional plates, is in the Department of Prints and Drawings, E.4367-4398-1908
Subject depicted
Road
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1428-1959

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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