Portion of a hanging city, approachable by sea from below, 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 Italian
Not on view
This plate first appeared in the Lettere di Giustificazione scritte a Milord Charlement. It is a reduced version of the original frontispiece to the fourth volume of Le Antichità Romane (first published 1756). Beginning in the early 1760s, Piranesi incorporated a version of this plate into the revised edition of the Opera Varie.