[First page of the Latin text of Campus Martius Antiquae Urbis, with decorated initial A made up of composed antique fragments including fasces, a helmet and a bucranium]

COLLECTION
Ashby Collection
Details
SUB-COLLECTION

Ashby Collection. Prints

TITLE

[First page of the Latin text of Campus Martius Antiquae Urbis, with decorated initial A made up of composed antique fragments including fasces, a helmet and a bucranium]

NAME

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 (artist)
Ashby, Thomas, 1874-1931 (collector)

PLACE

Romae]

PUBLISHER

[apud Auctorem]

DATE

[1762]

ITEM

1 print : etching ; 53 x 39 cm.

NOTE

"Caput primum. De Campi Martii loco, & antiqua magnitudine."
First page of the Latin text of Campus Martius Antiquae Urbis by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Romae, apud Auctorem, 1762.
Title devised by the cataloguer.
Forms part of: Ashby Collection. Prints.

CITATION

Focillon, 430
Wilton-Ely, 561

SPONSOR

Digitisation sponsored by Clare Hornsby 2021

Subject: TOPICAL TERM

Fasces
Helmets
Initials
Skulls

Subject: GEOGRAPHIC TERM

Campo Marzio

Subject: CHRONOLOGICAL

1760-1770

GENRE/FORM

Etchings-1760-1770.

LOCATION

British School at Rome

REPOSITORY

Library

CALL NUMBER

TA[PRI]-GBP09-064

ACCESS

Closed access material (Library)

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