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View of the Arch Built in Honor of Augustus near the City of Aosta in Piedmont, Agusta Praetoria Salassorum in Antiquity (Veduta dell’Arco fabbricato in onore d’Augusto vicino alla Citta di Aosta in Piemonte anticamente Augusta Praetoria Salassorum)

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View of the Arch Built in Honor of Augustus near the City of Aosta in Piedmont, Agusta Praetoria Salassorum in Antiquity (Veduta dell’Arco fabbricato in onore d’Augusto vicino alla Citta di Aosta in Piemonte anticamente Augusta Praetoria Salassorum)

1748-1765
18th century
257 x 397 mm (10.1 x 15.6 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)
After Roger Newdigate, British, (1719–1806)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Etching on laid paper

Series: from Some Views of Triumphal Arches and Other Monuments Erected by the Romans… (Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali…)

Edition: First Paris edition, 1800–1807; this plate does not appear in the original (1748) edition of “Antichita Romane”; it first appears in the second edition (1765) under the new title, “Alcune vedute di archi trionfali”

Marks: Signed in scroll, lower left: “Cav. Piranesi inc.”; inscribed, upper right: numeral “5”

Bibliography: Focillon 45; Hind (1922), p. 75; Wilton-Ely 107.

Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), before 1953

Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.30

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architecture*

architecture - Art or science of designing and building structures, especially habitable structures, in accordance with principles determined by aesthetic and practical or material considerations. Refers also to the structures created. [November 1994 related term added. October 1990 alternate term added.]

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plate Dimensions: 257 x 397 mm (10.1 x 15.6 in.)

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778) Roger Newdigate, British, (1719–1806) . View of the Arch Built in Honor of Augustus near the City of Aosta in Piedmont, Agusta Praetoria Salassorum in Antiquity (Veduta dell’Arco fabbricato in onore d’Augusto vicino alla Citta di Aosta in Piemonte anticamente Augusta Praetoria Salassorum), 1748-1765. From Some Views of Triumphal Arches and Other Monuments Erected by the Romans… (Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali…). Etching on laid paper. plate : 257 x 397 mm (10.1 x 15.6 in.). DAC accession number 1973.D1.38.30. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), before 1953. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: R. Lee) .

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