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View of the Tomb Believed to Be That of the Scipios outside Porta San Sebastiano… (Veduta di un del Sepolcro creduto de’ Scipioni fuori di Porta S. Sebastiano…)


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View of the Tomb Believed to Be That of the Scipios outside Porta San Sebastiano… (Veduta di un del Sepolcro creduto de’ Scipioni fuori di Porta S. Sebastiano…)

18th century
18th century
375 x 520 mm (14.8 x 20.5 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching
Series: from Roman Antiquities (Le Antichità Romane)
Marks: Signed in plate, lower right
Bibliography: Focillon 250; Petrucci (1953) 77; Wilton-Ely 385.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892)
Accession Number: Retrospective TBD

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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.]
  • death
  • graves - Excavations in the earth used for burial; for constructions raised over or around burial sites, use "tombs." [April 1993 related term added.]
  • Italy - TGN 1000080
  • Rome - TGN 7000874 (standard English name used here for this well-known city)

Dimensions
  • plate Dimensions: 375 x 520 mm (14.8 x 20.5 in.)

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