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Parte di ampio magnifico Porto all'uso degli antichi Romani, ove si scuopre l'interno della gran Piazza pel Comercio... (Part of a spacious and magnificent Harbor for the use of the ancient Romans opening onto a large market square...), from "Opere Varie di Archiettura, prospettive, grotteschi, antichità; inventate, ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Veneziano" (Various Works of Architecture, perspectives, grotesques, and antiquities; designed and etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian Architect)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (d. 1778)

ca. 1749–50 · Etching, engraving, drypoint; second state of seven (Robison)

The Round Tower, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (d. 1778)

ca. 1749–50 · Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of four (Robison)

Le Antichità Romane, tome 2

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (d. 1778)

published 1756–57 · Etching

Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni del Barberi da Cento detto Il Guercino

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (d. 1778)

1764 · Etching

Title Page, from "Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni del Barberi da Cento detto Il Guercino"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (d. 1778)

1764 · Etching in red and black ink

Ruins of Egyptian and Greek monuments, from "Opere Varie di Architettura, prospettive, grotteschi, antichità; inventate, ed incesa da Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Veneziano" (Various Works of architecture, perspective, grotesques, and antiquities; designed and etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian Architect)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (d. 1778)

printed 1761–99 · Etching

Interior view of the ustrinum, of the Tomb of Mamia [...], from "Antiquités de Pompeïa, tome second, Antiquités de la Grande Grèce..." (Antiquities of Pompeii, volume two, Antiquities of Great Greece...), volume 2, plate 43

Francesco Piranesi (d. 1810)

1804 · Etching

Exterior view of the main door of the Tomb of Mamia [...], from "Antiquités de Pompeïa, tome second, Antiquités de la Grande Grèce..." (Antiquities of Pompeii, volume two, Antiquities of Great Greece...), volume 2, plate 42

Francesco Piranesi (d. 1810)

1805 · Etching

Large plan of the Temple of Isis, from "Antiquités de Pompeïa, tome second, Antiquités de la Grande Grèce..." (Antiquities of Pompeii, volume two, Antiquities of Great Greece...), volume 2, plate 68

Francesco Piranesi (d. 1810)

1806 · Etching

Sections of the three previous houses [...] in the City of Pompeii, from "Antiquités de Pompeïa, tome second, Antiquités de la Grande Grèce..." (Antiquities of Pompeii, volume two, Antiquities of Great Greece...), volume 2, plate 55

Francesco Piranesi (d. 1810)

1804–7 · Etching

Inscriptions found in different places in the Temple of Isis, from "Antiquités de Pompeïa, tome second, Antiquités de la Grande Grèce..." (Antiquities of Pompeii, volume two, Antiquities of Great Greece...), volume 2, plate 72

Francesco Piranesi (d. 1810)

1804–07 · Etching

Piranesi State 2

Lothar Osterburg (d. 9999)

2008 · Photogravure with scraping, drypoint, aquatint spitbite, and line etching tea stained