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Gianbattista Piranesi
Mozano di Mestre, Venice 1720 – 1778 Rome
Title page to
Ioannis Baptistae Piranesi, Aniquorum Regiau Societas Londinensis Socii, Campius Martius Antiquae Urbis
Title page to
Ioannis Baptistae Piranesi, Aniquorum Regiau Societas Londinensis Socii, Campius Martius Antiquae Urbis
The Campus Martius of the Ancient City, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquities, London
Wilton-Ely 559
505 x 340 mm
Original etching, 1757.
The plate signed.
Published by Piranesi 1762 from the Palazzo Tomati.
With the dedication "Robert Adam, celebrated British Architect" on a column at the foot of the plate.
Trimmed to the plate at the foot and remargined.
Edge-mounted.
£550
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The Campo Marzio
Though not published till 1762, Il Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma, developed from Piranesi’s giant map imaginatively reconstructing the plan of Ancient Rome, largely hidden beneath the medieval and modern city, etched c1755-57, which his friend Robert Adam, then studying in Rome, persuaded him to make the basis of a full-scale treatise, which on the title page Piranesi dedicated to Adam, who shared Piranesi’s concern that contemporary ‘modern’ design could benefit from imaginative uses of antique patterns.
Prints from the Campo Marzio in this exhibition are:
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