Tomb of the Scipios outside Porta di San Sebastian, 1756

  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720-1778

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 15 5/8 × 20 5/8 inches (39.7 × 52.4 cm) Sheet: 20 × 26 5/8 inches (50.8 × 67.6 cm)

Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass

29.345

Stamped, in black, verso: A. Castagnari (Lugt Suppl. 86a)

Inscribed, in plate, lower right corner: Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc. Inscribed, upper right of image: Tom. II XXVIII Inscribed, in plate, across lower margin: [three long lines of text] Inscribed, in pencil, lower right corner: [illegible numeric notation]

A. Castagnari (Rome, Italy). Lillian Henkel Haass

1929-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Piranesi's Views of Rome. Exh. cat., University of Michigan-Dearborn. Dearborn, 1986, no. 23, p. 67 (ill.).

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Tomb of the Scipios outside Porta di San Sebastian, 1756, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 29.345.