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Plate 19: Part of the ancient Appian Way about three miles outside Porta S. Sebastiano, from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte de quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy)
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Plate 19: Part of the ancient Appian Way about three miles outside Porta S. Sebastiano, from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte de quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi | Giovanni Bouchard

ca. 1748

Medium

Etching

Tags

BuildingsTrees

Dimensions

Plate: 5 1/4 x 10 5/8 in. (13.3 x 27 cm) Sheet: 12 13/16 x 18 7/8 in. (32.5 x 48 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1720–1778 • Republic of Venice

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) was an Italian printmaker, architect, and antiquarian whose visionary etchings of Rome and imaginary prisons revolutionized architectural representation and profoundly influenced both Neoclassicism and Romanticism.

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