View of the famous Vatican Basilica with its spacious portico and adjacent Piazza, from "Vedute di Roma" (Views of Rome), part I
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. 1750–78
Medium: Etching; first state of three (Hind)
Dimensions: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 29 5/16 in. (51.5 x 74.5 cm)
Plate: 18 1/2 x 27 15/16 in. (47 x 71 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession year: 1941