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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M2869.7.9
People
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
Title
The Mouth (outlet) of the Cloaca Maxima into the Tiber
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Della Magnificenza ed Architettura de'Romani (On the Grandeur and the Architectu
Original Language Title: Ostium, sive Emissarium Cloacae Maximae in Tiberim...
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/70066

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 39.5 x 23.5 cm (15 9/16 x 9 1/4 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
1834, 1st Parisian
Standard Reference Number
Ficacci 439

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Henry Osborne Taylor in memory of her father, William Bradley Isham
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
M2869.7.9
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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