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The Ancient Capitol Ascended by Approximately One Hundred Steps… (Campodoglio antico a cui si ascendeva per circa cento gradini…)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1743
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: The Ancient Capitol Ascended by Approximately One Hundred Steps… (Campodoglio antico a cui si ascendeva per circa cento gradini…)
- Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Date Created: 1743
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower center: “Gio. Batta. Piranesi Archit. Veneto inv. ed. inc. in Roma”
- Set or Series Title: Part One of Architecture and Perspectives… (Prima Parte di Architettura e Prospettive inventate ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architteto Veneziano fra gli Arcadi Salcindio Tiseio)
- 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 with title printed from separate plate 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: 269 mm x 362 mm (10.59 in. x 14.25 in.).
- Bibliography: Focillon 9; Hind (1922) pp. 75, 78; Wilton-Ely 10
- Associated People: Created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)
- Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.21
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