Ashby Collection. Prints
Disegno di spoglie d'antichi edifizj, le quali oggi servono di sopralimitare e di stipiti alla porta della Chiesa di S. Pietro della Città d'Albano
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 (artist)Ashby, Thomas, 1874-1931 (collector)
[1764]
1 print : etching ; 53,5 x 74 cm.
Plate 9 from Antichità di Albano e di Castel Gandolfo, published by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1764. Title from the print's caption. Top right: Tav. IX; bottom right: Piranesi F. Forms part of: Ashby Collection. Prints.
Focillon, 518 Wilton-Ely, 651
Digitisation sponsored by Clare Hornsby 2021
S. Peter Apostle (Church : Albano Laziale, Italy)
Pictorial worksArchitectural elementsBas-reliefs
ItalyAlbano LazialeLazio
1760-1770
Etchings
British School at Rome
TA[PRI]-GBP02-009
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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