Various columns in Greek architecture taken from ancient monuments, illustrated to scale [A selection of columns taken from monuments in Rome, despite the title, including a Salamonic column from St. Peter's], 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. 6
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 31 1/2 in. (55 x 80 cm)
plate: 26 3/16 x 16 1/8 in. (66.5 x 41 cm) printed horizontally
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession year: 1941