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Shown in This Plate Are the Plan and Elevation of the Bridge Now Called the Ponte dei Quattro Capi [Bridge of the Four Heads]… (Dimostransi nella Tav. presente la Pianta, ed Elevazione del Ponte…)


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Shown in This Plate Are the Plan and Elevation of the Bridge Now Called the Ponte dei Quattro Capi [Bridge of the Four Heads]… (Dimostransi nella Tav. presente la Pianta, ed Elevazione del Ponte…)

18th century
18th century
385 x 595 mm (15.2 x 23.4 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching
Series: from Roman Antiquities (Le Antichità Romane)
Edition: TOM. 3
Marks: Signed in plate, lower right
Bibliography: Focillon 353; Petrucci (1953) 187; Wilton-Ely 486.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892)
Accession Number: Retrospective TBD

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  • 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.]
  • bridges (built works) - Structures spanning and providing passage over waterways, topographic depressions, transportation routes, or similar circulation barriers. [September 1994 scope note added; related term added. March 1993 descriptor changed, was 'bridges'; alternate term changed, was 'bridge'.]
  • elevations (drawings) - Drawings showing the vertical elements of a building, either exterior or interior, as a direct projection to a vertical plane. DAC [April 1992 descriptor moved. May 1991 descriptor changed, was "elevations"; alternate term changed, was 'elevation'.]
  • Italy - TGN 1000080
  • plans (drawings) - Use for orthographic drawings in the horizontal plane, generally depicting discrete objects or spaces. Can also be used for a set of drawings for a project. For general reference to depictions or photographs showing structures or sites seen from directly above, use "plan views." For representations in plan view of portions of the earth's surface, emphasizing arterial or regional relationships and using larger scales, prefer "maps." [April 1992 descriptor moved. September 1991 descriptor changed, was "plans"; alternate term changed, was 'plan'. April 1991 scope note changed.]
  • Rome - TGN 7000874 (standard English name used here for this well-known city)

Dimensions
  • plate Dimensions: 385 x 595 mm (15.2 x 23.4 in.)

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