Imaginery ancient temple designed in the style of those built in honor of the Goddess Vesta... (Tempio antico inventato e disegnato alla maniera di quelli che si fabbricavano in onore della Dea Vesta...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive (Part One of Architecture and Perspectives)
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: ca. 1750
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 15 11/16 × 9 15/16 in. (39.8 × 25.3 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/16 × 13 1/4 in. (49.4 × 33.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Accession year: 1937
Tags: Architecture|Temples