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Plate 25, Volume 3

Print
ca. 1750 (printed), 1803-1807 (produced)
Artist/Maker
Tessier (bookbinder)
Buonamici, Antonio (artist)
Rossi (engravers)
Place of origin
Italy (engraved)
Paris (produced)

Double page portrait format engraving in black and white, showing objects and ornamentation from the burial chamber of the freedmen and slaves of the family of Augustus. The images are lettered A-D, with a key in Italian at the bottom of the page. A: Ledge that ran around the wall of the room; B: One of the sepulchral niches, and a cinerary urn; C: One of the inscriptions placed above the niches; D: Ornamentation of the door jamb.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Architecture
Archaeology
Death
Object type
Print
TitlePlate 25, Volume 3 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
engraving, paper
Paper
Engraving
Brief description
'Plate 25, Volume 3', engraving from Le Antichita Romane di Giambatista Piranesi, Volume 3, drawn by Antonio Buonamici, engraved by Girolama Rossi, ca. 1750, volume bound together in Paris by Tessier, 1803-1807
Physical description
Double page portrait format engraving in black and white, showing objects and ornamentation from the burial chamber of the freedmen and slaves of the family of Augustus. The images are lettered A-D, with a key in Italian at the bottom of the page. A: Ledge that ran around the wall of the room; B: One of the sepulchral niches, and a cinerary urn; C: One of the inscriptions placed above the niches; D: Ornamentation of the door jamb.
Dimensions
  • Height: 55.4cm (approx)
  • Width: 41.1cm (approx)
Marks and inscriptions
Girolama Rossi sculp.
Object history
This print was originally published in Francesco Bianchini's 'Camere ed Inscrizioni Sepulchrali', Rome: GM Salvioni, 1727. Piranesi purchased the copper plate and reprinted the illustration in his 'Antichita Romane'.
Subjects depicted
Roman
Ornamentation
Urns
Associations
Livia
Augustus
Piranesi
Rome
Bibliographic references
  • From departmental notes.
  • From the bookbinders' label on the inside cover of Volume 3 of 'Le Antichita Romane di Giambatista Piranesi.'
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.4122-1908

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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