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Drawings Warwick Vase

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.110

Artist/Designer/Maker

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 - Artist
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 - Engraver

Production date

1778

Production place

Rome (city)

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)

Dimensions

Height: 480mm
Width: 480mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Cav. Piranesi fec.

References

Reference (free text)

John Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings 2 vols. (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994), 2: 964-6. Illustration, pl. 891, p. 966.

Reference (free text)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi, Lucerne, ed Ornamenti Antichi 2 vols. (Rome, 1778). See Volume 1, the first three plates.

Reference (free text)

Ian Jenkins and Kim Sloan, Vases & Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and His Collection (London: British Museum Press, 1996), pp. 220-2.
    The item is one of the illustrations from Piranesi's book of engravings (see Bibliography).