Ashby Collection. Prints
[Frontispiece to the Vedute di Roma, capriccio of ruins with statue of Minerva]
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 (artist)Ashby, Thomas, 1874-1931 (collector)
[1748]
1 print : etching ; 52,5 x 75 cm.
Bottom left: Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinita dei monti. A paoli due e mezzo; bottom right: Piranesi inventò, incise in Roma. Frontispiece to: Vedute di Roma disegnate ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi..., 1748? Title devised by the cataloguer. Forms part of: Ashby Collection. Prints.
Focillon, 786 Wilton-Ely, 135
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Minerva (Roman deity)
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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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