Title: View of the rear entrance of the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore, from Veduta di Roma (Roman Views)
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1742
Portfolio: Vedute di Roma
Artist:  Giovanni Battista Piranesi 
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching; first state of five (Hind)
Dimensions: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 30 in. (46 x 76.2 cm)
Plate: 15 13/16 x 24 3/16 in. (40.2 x 61.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. David Keppel, 1960
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Architecture, term: Buildings, term: Obelisks, term: Rome