Remains of a covered portico, or a cryptoporticus, in a villa of Domitian, five miles outside Rome on the Frascati road, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Vedute di Roma
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: ca. 1766
Medium: Etching; first state of four (Hind)
Dimensions: Sheet: 20 11/16 x 26 9/16 in. (52.5 x 67.5 cm)
Plate: 16 3/4 x 23 13/16 in. (42.5 x 60.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960
Accession year: 1960
Tags: Rome|Ruins