View of the Arch built in honor of Augustus near the City of Aosta in Piedmont, Augusta Praetoria Salassorum in Antiquity. The inscribed fragment is from the attic story and is now built into the wall of the Capuchin Monastery, tavola 5 from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti analzati da Romani parte de quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy)

Title: View of the Arch built in honor of Augustus near the City of Aosta in Piedmont, Augusta Praetoria Salassorum in Antiquity. The inscribed fragment is from the attic story and is now built into the wall of the Capuchin Monastery, tavola 5 from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti analzati da Romani parte de quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy)

Series/Portfolio: Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti analzati da Romani parte de quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome)

Artist: After a design by Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet (British, Arbury, Warwickshire 1719–1806)

Date: printed after 1775

Medium: Etching

Dimensions: Sheet: 21 5/8 x 15 3/4 in. (55 x 40 cm)
Plate: 10 1/2 x 15 9/16 in. (26.7 x 39.5 cm) printed horizontally on the sheet

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library

Accession Number: 41.71.1.8(54)