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View of the Arch Built in Honor of Augustus near the City of Aosta in Piedmont, Agusta Praetoria Salassorum in Antiquity (Veduta dell’Arco fabbricato in onore d’Augusto vicino alla Citta di Aosta in Piemonte anticamente Augusta Praetoria Salassorum)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1748-1765
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: View of the Arch Built in Honor of Augustus near the City of Aosta in Piedmont, Agusta Praetoria Salassorum in Antiquity (Veduta dell’Arco fabbricato in onore d’Augusto vicino alla Citta di Aosta in Piemonte anticamente Augusta Praetoria Salassorum)
- Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi after Roger Newdigate
- Date Created: 1748-1765
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in scroll, lower left: “Cav. Piranesi inc.”; inscribed, upper right: numeral “5”
- 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
- 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; this plate does not appear in the original (1748) edition of “Antichita Romane”; it first appears in the second edition (1765) under the new title, “Alcune vedute di archi trionfali”
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 257 mm x 397 mm (10.12 in. x 15.63 in.).
- Bibliography: Focillon 45; Hind (1922), p. 75; Wilton-Ely 107
- Associated People: Created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), After Roger Newdigate (British, 1719-1806)
- Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.30
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