Subject
View of a tomb on Via Appia Antica, outside Porta San Sebastiano, with accompanying plan and description.
Accession number RP-P-OB-36.848
Etching
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Mogliano Veneto 1720 – 1778 Rome
Around 1756 – 1757
35.0 cm x 23.6 cm
Inscriptions
Top left: Tom II. Top right: XXXVI. Centre: Roman Palms. Lower: A) Sepulchre’s plan along the ancient Via Appia, near the Vigna Buonamici. B) Entrance now partially ruined. C) Squared room with niches on the sides. D) Windows partially buried under the ruins. E) Vertical view. F) Boulder built in horizontal alignments of flint chip, lime and pozzolana. G) Actual country level. H) Travertine, now buried, that covered the external part of the sepulchren; the parts of travertine that remained out of the ground, have been detached from the boulder and taken away. Lower right: Piranesi Archit. dis. et’ inc.
Placement
Rijksmuseum
Credits
Rijksmuseum
References
H. Focillon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a cura di Maurizio Calvesi e Augusta Monferini; traduzione di Giuseppe Guglielmi, Bologna, 1967, p. 305.
J. Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings, 2 voll., San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, p. 445.
