Specifications
| Title | Sepolcro di Cecilia Metella or detto Capo di bove fuori della porta di S. Sebastiano su l'antica via Appia |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Etching |
| Object type |
Print
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 449 mm Width 633 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Publisher:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
|
| Accession number | BdH 3526 (PK) |
| Credits | From the estate of Dr J.C.J. Bierens de Haan, 1951 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1951 |
| Creation date | in 1766 |
| Signature | lower right: Piranesi F. |
| Watermark | ornamental shield with diagonal crossbar, top left fleur-de-lis and bottom right dagger, above the letter F and below the letter M (?, left center, upside down, P5-7 from the left; vH, 22P, plano; similar to Robison 61) |
| Inscriptions | lower center: Sepolcro di Cecilia Metella or detto Capo di bove fuori della porta di S. Sebastiano su l'antica via Appia |
| Collector | Collector / J.C.J. Bierens de Haan |
| Mark | 'initials with the number 90' (unknown in Lugt) |
| Provenance | ; - ; Maurice Rousseau (?), art dealer, Paris; on 01.03.1924 acquired by J.C.J. Bierens de Haan (1867-1951, L.451e), Amsterdam; his bequest, 1951 |
| Exhibitions | Rotterdam 1953 |
| Research |
Show research Piranesi on Paper |
| Literature | Focillon 1918, no. 772; Hind 1922, no. 67; Rotterdam 1953, no. 107, pl. 17; Wilton-Ely 1994, no. 200; Stuttgart 1999, no. 14.67 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Etching
> Manual
> Intaglio printing techniques
> Printing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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| Geographical origin | Italy > Southern Europe > Europe |
| Place of manufacture | Rome > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe |
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