Hadrian's Villa near Tivoli, "Le Vedute di Roma" (1748-1778)
date: label: Date
content: 1748–78
name: label: Print Maker
content: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ruins of a Classical building with an apse. Interior of praetorian castle, with scattered small-scale figures. At left, is a section of a high wall with two arched doorways. At right, a curved wall with seven niches surmounted by a half-dome (the apse). Etched in the cartouche: Avanzi di una Sala appar / tenente al Casto Pretorio nel / la Villa Adriana in Tivoli / A. Tribunale ornato di nicchie, and signed on the plate at lower left: Cvalier Piranesi F.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Henry Mann Silver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1928-9-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching
label: Dimensions
content: 44.5 x 58 cm (17 1/2 x 22 13/16 in.)