Various capitals, friezes and ornamental fragments compared with a detail by Le Roy [Collegio Romano, Palazzo Farnese, Villa Mattei, etc.], 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. 17
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 52 3/8 in. (55 x 133 cm)
plate: 16 5/16 x 41 9/16 in. (41.5 x 105.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession year: 1941