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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Colosseum, Rome. SM P132. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: The National Gallery, London
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778)
Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo from Veduta di Roma
1760-1778
Etching
Inscription: Lettered in lower margin with the title and a numbered key. At lower centre 'Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice nel palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de' monti. A paoli due e mezzo', at lower right 'Piranesi F.'
Museum number: P132
On display: Picture Room - inside planes (by arrangement or on some pre-booked tours)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit - not all tours show the inside of all planes.
Curatorial note
This fine etching shows the Flavian Amphitheatre, known as the Colosseum, in Rome, with the Arch of Constantine visible in the distance on the right.
Provenance
Unknown. This print was in Soane's collection by 1796 when it is shown in J.M. Gandy's view of the No. 12 Breakfast Room 14/6/1 hanging on the east wall (right-hand of three framed prints shown there).
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