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Object Type
print
Museum number
1886,1124.180
Title
Object:
Vue de ce qui reste encore des Mus de l'ancienne Ville de Pesto ...
(View showing the remains of the ancient city walls of Paestum ...)
Series:
Différentes vues de quelques Restes de trois grands Edifices qui subsistent encore dans le milieu de l'ancienne Ville de Pesto autrement Posidonia qui est située dans la Lucanie
(Different views of some of the remains of three great edifices that still exist at the centre of the ancient city of Pesto or Paestum, which is situtated in Lucrania)
Description
Plate I. The foreground with cow-herders and cows, the middle ground with horses, goats and the remains of three temples Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Print made by:
Francesco Piranesi
School/style
Italian
Production date
1778
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
473 millimetres
Width:
673 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Wilton-Ely 1994 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the complete etchings
(718)
Focillon 1918 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre
(583)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
temple
Associated places
Topographic representation of:
Paestum
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Lady Fanny Geary
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Sir William Geary
(Acquired in Rome in 1786)
Acquisition date
1886
Acquisition notes
See comments for 1886,1124.1
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1886,1124.180