Tombe van Nero, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, in or after 1747

Title(s)

Tombe van Nero
Capricci decorativi (former series title)
Grotteschi (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1953-472

Catalogue reference

• Focillon 22
• Wilton-Ely 23
• Robison 23

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Description

Decoratieve fantasie met de resten van de Tombe van Nero, resten van bouwwerken en slangen.

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (mentioned on object)
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi (mentioned on object)

Place

Rome

Dating

in or after 1747

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving / drypoint / scoring

Measurements

height 389 mm × width 544 mm

What

• landscape with ruins
• ruin of a building ~ architecture
• sarcophagus
• snakes
• grave, tomb

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1953

Copyright

Public domain

• Giovanni Battista Piranesi : the complete etchings, John Wilton-Ely, p. 43, cat.nr. 23
• Piranesi : early architectural fantasies : a catalogue raisonné of the etchings, Andrew Robinson, p. 120-121, cat.nr. 23
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi, p. 281, cat.nr. 22