Sepolcro di Metella detto Capo di Bove (Tomb of Caecilia Metella called Head of the Ox), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Antichità Romane de'tempi della Repubblica
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
published 1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 5 1/4 × 10 9/16 in. (13.4 × 26.9 cm)
Sheet: 14 5/8 × 20 13/16 in. (37.2 × 52.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.84
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in plate, center right: PIRANESI F. / Piranesi f. Inscribed in plate, upper left: Tav. 20; center right: SEPOLCRO DI / METELLA DETTO / CAPO DI BOVE Watermark, close to Colnaghi 4.
Published References
L. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Hanover, NH: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1976, p.55, no. 63.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon, 62
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