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SM P31. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Justin Piperger

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778)

Arch of Septimus Severus, Rome

1772

Etching

Museum number: P31

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

According to 1835 Description P31-P34 are the four engravings given to Soane by Piranesi himself in 1779 in Italy


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