Rome: Castel Sant'Angelo (mausoleum of Hadrian), and the Ponte Sant'Angelo leading to it across the river Tiber. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1754.

  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Date:
[between 1700 and 1799]
Reference:
2928395i
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Description

In the centre background is St Peter's Basilica. In the foreground are labourers, some with carts, doing various kinds of work on the muddy riverside

Publication/Creation

In Roma [Rome] : Si vendono ... dai Ss.ri Bouchard e Gravier mercanti libraj, [between 1700 and 1799]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 35.4 x 58.4 cm

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Lettering

Veduta del ponte e Castello Sant'Angelo ... Piranesi architetto fec.

Edition

[State not in Hind].

References note

A.M. Hind, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: a critical study, with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome, New York 1922, p. 46, no. 29 (gives date of design as 1754)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2928395i

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