Disegno di due antiche cornici consimili, oggi stipiti della porta della Chiesa detta la Rotonda in Albano

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

[1764]

1 print : etching ; 44 x 58 cm.

Caption bottom left: Pezzo, o sia modanatura d’un antico pilastro, che giace su la via Appia presso un Romitorio, due miglia di quà da Albano. Caption bottom centre: Frammento, nella villa Paolucci d’Albano, d’un antico soffitto.
Plate 20 from Antichità di Albano e di Castel Gandolfo, published by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1764.
Title from the print's caption.
Top right: Tav. XX; bottom right: Piranesi F.
Forms part of: Ashby Collection. Prints.

Focillon, 529
Wilton-Ely, 662

Digitisation sponsored by Clare Hornsby 2021

Santa Maria della Rotonda (Church : Albano Laziale, Italy)

Pictorial works
Architectural elements
Bas-reliefs
Cornices

Italy
Albano Laziale
Lazio

1760-1770

Etchings

British School at Rome

TA[PRI]-GBP01-010

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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