Frontispiece from "Prima Parte di Architetture, 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: Sheet: 15 13/16 x 10 1/16 in. (40.2 x 25.5 cm)
Plate: 14 3/16 x 13 5/16 in. (36 x 33.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Accession year: 1937
Tags: Ruins|Human Figures