print
- Museum number
- 1925,1215.129
- Title
- Object: La grotta di Posilipo, cioè via sotterranea scavata nel vivo sasso per la lunghezza di più di due stadi fra Napoli e Pozzuolo ...
- Description
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View of the interior of the Grotto of Posilippo, Naples; subterranean passageway with figures and animals, two figures kneeling before another emerging from a gateway. 1791
Etching printed in two colours of ink
- Production date
- 1791
- Dimensions
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Height: 775 millimetres
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Width: 510 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Desprez's drawing is in the BM. This is a later state of the plate. The first state was in outline, etched by Piranesi as a base for Desprez to watercolour. After Desprez's departure from Italy, Piranesi reworked the plate so that it could be printed without needing to be coloured. The coloured ink with which the fire is printed is an afterthought of the original intention.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1928
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1925,1215.129