Ashby Collection. Prints
[Frontispiece to volume 2 of the Antichità Romane, showing the ancient intersection of the Via Appia and the Via Ardeatina]
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 (artist)Ashby, Thomas, 1874-1931 (collector)
[1756]
1 print : etching ; 52, 5 x 72 cm.
Frontispiece to volume 2 of the Antichità Romane, published by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1756-1757. Title devised by the cataloguer. Top right: II. Tom. II; bottom right: Gio. Batta. Piranesi inv. dis. e incise. Forms part of: Ashby Collection. Prints.
Focillon, 255 Wilton-Ely, 360
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AntiquitiesPictorial worksBustsCarriages & coachesHorsesMilestonesPeopleRoadsSculptureTemplesTombs & sepulchral monuments
Appian WayRomeVia ArdeatinaRomaLazioItaly
1750-1760
FrontispiecesEtchings
British School at Rome
TA[PRI]-GBP02-017
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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