Drawings Warwick Vase
Object number
LDSAL2020.16.96
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: 437mm
Width: 575mm
Width: 575mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Cav. Piranesi F.
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. 890, p. 965.
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).
