Leaf with two performances of Roman buildings. Above: Aurelian face on the wall with the one above the other channels of the three aqueducts Aqua Julia, and Aqua Aqua Tepula Marcia. Top left a map on a rolled sheet and numbered: Attn. XI. Top right numbered: Fig. I. Glossary of numbers in lower margin. Bottom: schematic and plan of the Muro Torto. Midst of a detail of one of the terracotta pipes Where: water ran through it, according to the explanatory list of letters at the bottom margin. Top left numbered: Fig. II. Manufacturer : printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (listed building) in its

Leaf with two performances of Roman buildings. Above: Aurelian face on the wall with the one above the other channels of the three aqueducts Aqua Julia, and Aqua Aqua Tepula Marcia. Top left a map on a rolled sheet and numbered: Attn. XI. Top right numbered: Fig. I. Glossary of numbers in lower margin. Bottom: schematic and plan of the Muro Torto. Midst of a detail of one of the terracotta pipes Where: water ran through it, according to the explanatory list of letters at the bottom margin. Top left numbered: Fig. II. Manufacturer : printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (listed building) in its design: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (listed property) Place manufacture: Rome Date: ca. 1756 - ca. 1757 Physical features: etching; printing of two sheets in a non-cut sheet of material: paper Technique: etching dimensions: plate edge: h 130 mm (above.) × W 195 mm (above.) × H 130 mm (Bottom.) × W 197 mm (Bottom.) Remarks These prints part of the series' Le Antichità Romane. Piranesi did more than eight years to study these 250 plates story series that was published in four volumes. He produced the prints from about 1756 to 1757. The series also includes prints by or to other printmakers, among Who: Francesco Bianchini and Girolamo Rossi. Subject: ruin of a building architectureaqueduct ~ (~ water supply) pipe system (~ water supply )

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