Drawings Warwick Vase
Object number
LDSAL2020.16.110
Artist/Designer/Maker
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 - Artist
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 - Engraver
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 - Engraver
Production date
1778
Production place
Rome (city)
Material
paper
ink
printer's ink
ink
printer's ink
Technique
Drawing
Engraving
Engraving
Dimensions
Height: 480mm
Width: 480mm
Width: 480mm
Associated place
Warwick Castle
Burrell Collection
Hadrian's Villa
Tivoli
Rome (province)
Lazio
Italy
Europe
Burrell Collection
Hadrian's Villa
Tivoli
Rome (province)
Lazio
Italy
Europe
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).
