Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Foro di Augusto.
Summary
Public domain scan of 17th-18th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Collection Of Architecture Prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748 - 1751
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
Collection - Architecture Prints, 1750
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings by John Wilton-Ely (1994); and Piranesi: early architectural fantasies, a catalog raisonné by Andrew Robison (1986) are the authoritative references used in cataloging this collection of etchings. Content: The collection includes a vignette by Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, and a portrait of Piranesi by Francesco Polanzani.Collection - Italian Prints
Set of random Italian prints from NYPL collection
Tags
Date
1748 - 1750
Contributors
Charrington, John, 1856-1939, Collector
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778, Artist
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778, Etcher
Source
New York Public Library
Copyright info
Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")