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The Arch at Rimini Built by Augustus (Arco di Rimino fabbricato da Augusto)


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The Arch at Rimini Built by Augustus (Arco di Rimino fabbricato da Augusto)

1748
18th century
134 x 271 mm (5.3 x 10.7 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

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; loose sheet, not bound in volume
Marks: Signed in plate, lower right: “Piranesi F”; inscribed, upper right: “20”; inscribed in plate, lower right: “Tav. 17”
Bibliography: Focillon 59; Hind (1922), p. 75; Wilton-Ely 121.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), before 1953
Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.38

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This object has the following keywords:
  • 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.]
  • Italy - TGN 1000080
  • Rome - TGN 7000874 (standard English name used here for this well-known city)

Dimensions
  • plate Dimensions: 134 x 271 mm (5.3 x 10.7 in.)

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