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View of the Ancient Structure Built by Tarquinius Superbus Called the Bel Lido, and Like Others, Built by Marcus Agrippa in the Time of Augustus When He Cleaned All of the Sewers Leading to the Tiber [The Cloaca Maxima] (Veduta… [see full title])


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View of the Ancient Structure Built by Tarquinius Superbus Called the Bel Lido, and Like Others, Built by Marcus Agrippa in the Time of Augustus When He Cleaned All of the Sewers Leading to the Tiber [The Cloaca Maxima] (Veduta… [see full title])

ca. 1776
18th century
451 x 679 mm (17.8 x 26.7 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching on laid paper
State: First of three states
Series: from Views of Rome Drawn and Etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian Architect (Vedute di Roma disegnate ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Ve[nez]iano)
Edition: First Paris edition, 1800–1807
Marks: Signed in plate, lower right margin: “Cav. Piranesi F.”
Bibliography: 1792 cat. no. 57; Focillon 841; Hind 125; Wilton-Ely 258.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), before 1953
Accession Number: 1973.D1.172

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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: 451 x 679 mm (17.8 x 26.7 in.)

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