First Title Page (Latin text), 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)
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 15 3/4 in. (55 x 40 cm)
plate: 17 11/16 x 11 7/16 in. (45 x 29 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession year: 1941