Circo di Caracalla (Circus of Caracalla), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Raccolte di varie vedute di Roma (The Magnificence of Rome: Collection of Various Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778

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1752

Etching on heavy laid paper

Plate: 4 7/8 × 7 7/16 in. (12.4 × 18.9 cm)

Sheet: 20 13/16 × 29 1/2 in. (52.8 × 74.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

PR.977.24.44B

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed in plate, lower left: Piranesi F. Inscribed in plate, lower center: Circo di Caracalla Watermark: [fleur-de-lis in circle, similar to Hind 1]

Publication History

L. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Hanover, NH: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1976, p. 32, no. 23b.

Catalogue Raisonne

Focillon, 107

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