Veduta di Campo Vaccino (Plate 82 of "Views of Rome") by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Veduta di Campo Vaccino (Plate 82 of Views of Rome) by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Veduta di Campo Vaccino (Plate 82 of "Views of Rome")

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title

Veduta di Campo Vaccino (Plate 82 of "Views of Rome")

 
Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

  1720 - 1778
Year
1772  
Technique
etching 
Image Size
18 11/16 x 27 3/4" platemark 
Signature
in text, lower right: "Cavalier Piranesi del.e inc." 
Edition Size
not stated 
Annotations
text beneath image: title and identification of 11 monuments 
Reference
H100; F748 
Paper
thick laid Italian with Fleur-de-lys in double circle (Hind 2) 
State
i/iv; before numbers beneath title (18 I, left; 82, right) 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
SNKE101 
Price
SOLD
Description

One of the great architectural etchers, Piranesi is best known for his imaginary Carceri d'Invenzione (Invented Prisons), etched in the 1740's. He also documented the ruins of Italian architecture and antiquities in a number of series of etchings.

This etching is plate 82 from his famous Views of Rome and is from the rare first state. The "Vedute de Roma" was a series of 137 etchings done between 1729 and 1778.

"Vedute di Campo Vaccino" is from a goup of etchings within the "Views.." that are sometimes called the "Temples" series. This image is also known as "The Forum Romanum, with the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Foreground L., the Temple of Castor and Pollux, Foreground, R. and the Colosseum in the Distance." There are eleven temples described in the text of the plate, beneath the image.