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Forum of Augustus (Foro di Augusto)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1748
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Forum of Augustus (Foro di Augusto)
- Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Date Created: 1748
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “Piranesi Fece”; inscribed in plate, lower right: “15”
- Set or Series Title: Some Views of Triumphal Arches and Other Monuments Erected by the Romans… (Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali…)
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), before 1953
- Materials & Techniques: Etching on laid paper
- Keywords: architecture, Italy, Rome
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: First Paris edition, 1800–1807; loose sheet, not bound in volume
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 133 mm x 268 mm (5.24 in. x 10.55 in.).
- Bibliography: Focillon 54; Hind (1922) p. 75; Wilton-Ely 118
- Associated People: Created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)
- Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.36
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