Trofei d'Augusto esistenti su la piazza del Campidoglio …

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 (artist)
Ashby, Thomas, 1874-1931 (collector)

[1761, 1753]

1 print : etching ; 53 x 39 cm.

Plates 17 and 18 from Le Rovine del Castello dell’Acqua Giulia, published by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1761.
Title from the print's captions.
Trofei d’ Augusto esistenti su la piazza del Campidoglio, tolti già di sotto le rovine degli archi del Castello di cui si tratta, accennate nella Tav. II. lett. F, e nella Tav. XIII. fig. I. lett. Q. Frammento di uno Scudo caduto da Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto: ora esistente nel Cortile delle Mendicanti a Torre de' Conti.
Two prints in one sheet.
Forms part of: Ashby Collection. Prints.

Focillon, 418
Wilton-Ely, 551 [269]

Digitisation sponsored by Clare Hornsby 2021

Architectural elements
Bas-reliefs
Antiquities
Pictorial works

Italy
Rome
Roma
Lazio

1760-1770

Etchings

British School at Rome

TA[PRI]-GBP01-005

Closed access material (Library)

One of the loose prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi originally belonged to Thomas Ashby (1874-1931), Director British School at Rome (1906-1925), who inherited his father’s library and continued to enrich the collection throughout his life. The collection was purchased from his widow in 1931 for the BSR Library thanks to a generous donation from the Treasurer at the time, William Russell.

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