print
- Museum number
- 1951,0714.280
- Title
- Object: La vetusta grandezza ancor conservo
- Description
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A horseman and other figures amidst a capriccio of antique ruins with an obelisk to the right
Etching
- Production date
- 1740-1750
- Dimensions
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Height: 387 millimetres (image)
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Height: 412 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 527 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is a later state with the name of the engraver taken out (though traces remain visible). It is plate 2 in the second set of twelve large landscapes after Ricci, published by Wagner, with titles of single lines. The BM only possesses three of this set (numbered AN), and two of the first set with four lines of verse (numbered AC).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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BM 1968 Giovanni Battista Piranesi (see p.14 of the catalogue)
- Acquisition date
- 1951
- Acquisition notes
- The group 1951,0714.74 to 323 was acquired with the support of Count Seilern. See Popham's letter and Seilern's reply in the Letter Book for 1951.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1951,0714.280