PrintsItalian18th century

View of the Remains of the Praetorian Fort [the Poecile], Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli

1770

Artists

Giovanni Battista PiranesiArtist

Classification

Prints

Technique

Etching

Medium

Etching on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

plate: 37.5 × 66.1 cm (14 3/4 × 26 in.) sheet: 55.7 × 79.1 cm (21 15/16 × 31 1/8 in.)

Provenance

[Christopher Mendez, London], sold; to Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 1998, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

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