[Various capitals and architectural ornaments compared to an illustrated by Le Roy]

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

[1761]

1 print : etching ; 41 x 61,5 cm.

Caption on the inserted fictive sheet: Les plus beaux monuments de la Grece. Ex Le-Royo part 2. Inter Deli rudera. Upper left: In villa Pamphilia; In vinea Borioni ad Portam Salariam. Below: In villa Dnõrum de Casalibus; In villa Matthaejorum; In villa Matthaejorum; In villa Negronia. Centre: In villa Matthaejorum; Basis cippi in aedibus Emi D. Alexandri Card. Albani; In aedibus Matthaejorum. Upper right: In villa Alteria; In collegio Romano. Below: In collegio Romano; In villa Palumbaria.
Left hand section of plate 17 from Della magnificenza ed architettura de' Romani by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Romae : [Generoso Salomoni?], 1761.
Title devised by the cataloguer.
Forms part of: Ashby Collection. Prints.

Focillon,
Wilton-Ely, 777

Digitisation sponsored by Clare Hornsby 2021

Architectural elements
Bas-reliefs
Capitals (Columns)
Columns
Cornices
Antiquities
Pictorial works

Italy
Rome
Roma
Lazio

1760-1770

Etchings

British School at Rome

TA[PRI]-GBP10-076

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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