Page I (Latin text) Vignette (head-piece): Sarcophagus of Egyptian porphyry found among the ruins of the baths of M. Agrippa, now the funerary urn for the ashes of Pope Clement XII in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, from Il Campo Marzio dell' Antica Roma, Opera di G.B. Piranesi socio della reale società degli antiquari di Londra (The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome, the Work of G.B. Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, London)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Il Campo Marzio dell' Antica Roma, Opera di G.B. Piranesi socio della reale società degli antiquari di Londra
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1762
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 21 5/8 x 15 3/4 in. (55 x 40 cm)
Plate: 7 5/16 x 11 5/16 in. (18.5 x 28.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession year: 1941