Vestige delle Terme d'Antonio Caracalla (Remains of the Baths of Antoninus 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
published 1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 5 1/4 × 6 15/16 in. (13.3 × 17.7 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 29 9/16 in. (52.8 × 75.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.59A
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in plate, lower left: Piranesi fe. Inscribed in plate, lower left to lower right: Vestigie delle Terme d'Antonino Caracalla Watermark: [fleur-de-lis in circle; similar to Hind 1]
Course History
REL 30.1, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Winter 2019
Published References
L. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Hanover, NH: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1976, p. 43-4, no. 38a.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon, 104
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