Ashby Collection. Prints
Veduta del Tempio di Antonino e Faustina in Campo Vaccino
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 (artist)Ashby, Thomas, 1874-1931 (collector)
[Roma]
Presso l’Autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de’ Monti
[between 1761 and 17??]
1 print : etching ; 52,5 x 74,5 cm.
Bottom left: Piranesi Architetto fecit. Presso l’Autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de’ Monti. A paoli due e mezzo. Caption continues: S. Lorenzo in Miranda de’ Speciali. Title from the print's caption. Forms part of: Ashby Collection. Prints.
Focillon, 802 Wilton-Ely, 163
Digitisation sponsored by Clare Hornsby 2021
Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
Pictorial worksArchaeological sitesColumnsPeopleRoman templesAntiquitiesBuildings, structures, etc
ItalyRomeRoman ForumRomaLazio
1760-1770
Etchings
British School at Rome
TA[PRI]-GBP17-122
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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