Various columns in Greek architecture taken from ancient monuments, illustrated to scale [a selection of columns taken from monuments in Rome, despite the title, including a Salamonic column from St. Peter's], tab. 6 from "Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani" (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. Battista Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of London)

Title: Various columns in Greek architecture taken from ancient monuments, illustrated to scale [a selection of columns taken from monuments in Rome, despite the title, including a Salamonic column from St. Peter's], tab. 6 from "Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani" (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. Battista Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of London)

Series/Portfolio: Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani

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

Date: 1761

Medium: Etching

Dimensions: sheet: 21 5/8 x 31 1/2 in. (55 x 80 cm)
plate: 26 3/16 x 16 1/8 in. (66.5 x 41 cm) printed horizontally

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library

Object Number: 41.71.1.7(14)