Hadrian's Villa near Tivoli, 'Le Vedute di Roma' (1748-1778), Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778, Etching, Ruins of a Classical building with an apse. Interior of praetorian castle, with scattered small-scale figures. At left, is a section of a high wall with two arched doorways. At right, a curved wall with seven niches surmounted by a half-dome (the apse). Etched in the cartouche: Avanzi di una Sala appar / tenente al Casto Pretorio nel / la Villa Adriana in Tivoli / A. Tribunale ornato di nicchie, and signed on the plate at lower left: Cvalier Piranesi F., Italy, 1748–78, Print

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