About the Artwork
Lapides Capitolini
1762
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Italian
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink
Plate: 23 × 48 1/4 inches (58.4 × 122.6 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of the BenGate Collection
2015.285
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, upper center: SENATVS-POPVLVSQVE-ROMANVS | MONVMENTA-MARMOREA-MAGISTRATVVM | TRIVMPHORVMQVE-AB-VRBE CONDITA-AD | [partially illegible] Inscribed, below image: Lapides Capitolini | [paritally illegible]
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BenGate Collection
2015-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Lapides Capitolini, 1762, etching printed in black ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the BenGate Collection, 2015.285.
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