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This and 2 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Book, Frontispiece, with Dedication to Robert Adam, in Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma.

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1956

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2006

2024

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Bound Print, Sarcaphagus, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma

This is a Bound print. It was created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and published by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. It is dated 1762 and we acquired it in 1956. Its medium is etching with engraving on cream paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

Book (overall): 58.1 x 43.5 cm (22 7/8 x 17 1/8 in.) Sheet: 57 x 42 cm (22 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.) Platemark: 19.8 x 30 cm (7 13/16 x 11 13/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed below image: Sepulchrum Mariae Honorÿ Imp. Uxoris, Stiliconis filiae, ex Syenite Lapide, veper / tum in Basilica Vaticana, in Cella Regis Galliarum, Paulo III. Summo Pontifice. / Vid. Seriem aedifie. post Ichnog. magn. Campi Martÿ sub lit. S.

Cite this object as

Bound Print, Sarcaphagus, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma; Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778); Italy; etching with engraving on cream paper; Book (overall): 58.1 x 43.5 cm (22 7/8 x 17 1/8 in.) Sheet: 57 x 42 cm (22 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.) Platemark: 19.8 x 30 cm (7 13/16 x 11 13/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1956-15-1-3

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