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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.292
People
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
Title
Tomb Outside Porta Santa Sebastiano
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Pianta d'un Sepolcro fuori di Porto S. Sebastiano sull'antica Via Appia nella Vigna Buonamici
Series/Book Title: Le Antichità Romane (The Antiquities of Rome), III, Plate 9
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1756
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/12080

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 39.5 x 51.6 cm (15 9/16 x 20 5/16 in.)
sheet: 55.4 x 79.8 cm (21 13/16 x 31 7/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Ficacci 286; Focillon 294

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Richard M. Bennett
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.292
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The Fogg has almost a complete set of Piranesi's etchings, however, almost all are bound into volumes.
Commentary
This etching of architectural components from a tomb outside Porta Santa Sebastiano is from volume III of Piranesi's "Le Antichita Romane opera di Giambattista Piranesi architetto veneziano divisa in quarto tomi...(The Antiquities of Rome by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian architect, divided in four volumes...)," published in Rome in 1756. Volume III features ancient Roman tombs.

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