Details of the pedestals from the Arches of Titus and Spetimius Severus and from the obelisk in Piazza S. Pietro, from Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. Battista Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of London), tab. 4
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1761
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: sheet: 21 5/8 x 15 3/4 in. (55 x 40 cm)
plate: 15 11/16 x 10 1/2 in. (39.8 x 26.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession year: 1941