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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1914,0216.101
Title: Object: Piramide di C. Cestio; Series: Vedute di Roma
Description: View of the Pyramid of Caius Cestius, with section of the Roman walls to the right and the Porta San Paolo in the distance Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
School/style: Italian
Production date: 1760-1778
Production place: Published in: Rome (city)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 395 millimetres; Width: 538 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Wilton-Ely 1994 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the complete etchings (190); Hind 1922 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi, a critical study (36.I); Focillon 1918 / Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre (745)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2018 23 Feb – 22 Apr, Nashville, Frist Art Museum, 'Rome; City &Empire' 2018-2019 20 Sep-04 Feb, Canberra, National Museum of Australia, 'Rome; City &Empire'
Subjects: tomb/mausoleum; pyramid
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Pyramid of Gaius Cestius
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Davis & Orioli
Acquisition date: 1914
Acquisition notes: Acquired as two bound volumes, which were dismembered on acquisition in order to re-arrange the plates in the order of Hind's catalogue.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1914,0216.101
Conservation: Mount: 23 Oct 2017

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