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Tav 29 - Dimostrazione della macchina mobile di Legno inventata ed eseguita nel anno MDCCLVI dal Campanarino per restaurare la cupola del Panteon

Print
1780-1790 (made), 1800-1807 (produced)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print depicting the operation of a machine used to repair the dome of the Pantheon in 1756.


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TitleTav 29 - Dimostrazione della macchina mobile di Legno inventata ed eseguita nel anno MDCCLVI dal Campanarino per restaurare la cupola del Panteon (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
etching
Brief description
Plate 29 from a series of prints depicting the Pantheon, etching by Francesco Piranesi, Italy, 1780-90
Physical description
Print depicting the operation of a machine used to repair the dome of the Pantheon in 1756.
Dimensions
  • Volume height: 58.4cm
  • Volume width: 42.5cm
Object history
Bound in volume 6 of the 27 volume 'first Paris edition' of the works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, published by his sons Francesco and Pietro Piranesi in 1800-1807.
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Place depicted
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Accession number
E.4260-1908

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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