Aurelian wall with aqueducts and Muro Torto in Rome, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1756 - c. 1757 print Leaf with two performances of Roman buildings. Upstairs: View of the Aurelian wall with the channels of the three aqueducts Aqua Iulia, Aqua Tepula and Aqua Marcia. At the top left a map on a rolled -out leaf and numbered: XI. Numbered at the top right: Fig. I. explanatory list of numbers in sub -margin. Below: schematic representation and map of the Muro Torto. In the middle of a detail of one of the terracotta tubes through which water ran according to the explanatory list of letters in t
Aurelian wall with aqueducts and Muro Torto in Rome, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1756 - c. 1757 print Leaf with two performances of Roman buildings. Upstairs: View of the Aurelian wall with the channels of the three aqueducts Aqua Iulia, Aqua Tepula and Aqua Marcia. At the top left a map on a rolled -out leaf and numbered: XI. Numbered at the top right: Fig. I. explanatory list of numbers in sub -margin. Below: schematic representation and map of the Muro Torto. In the middle of a detail of one of the terracotta tubes through which water ran according to the explanatory list of letters in the lower margin. In the top left numbered: Fig. Ii. Rome paper etching ruin of a building ~ architecture. aqueduct (~ water supply). pipe system (~ water supply) Aureliaanse Muur. Aqua Iulia. Aqua Tepula. Aqua march. Wrong wall
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