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Small figures pass under a large imposing arch overgrown with vegetation - flanked on the left …
Arco di Druso alla Porta di Sebastiano in Roma.
Small figures pass under a large imposing arch overgrown with vegetation - flanked on the left …
Small figures pass under a large imposing arch overgrown with vegetation - flanked on the left by a carved inscription of a wall and on the right a figure or sculpture stationed in the slanted doorway of a decrepit structure.
Arco di Druso alla Porta di Sebastiano in Roma, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1748, etching on paper, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Arco di Druso alla Porta di Sebastiano in Roma.

Artist (Italian, 1720 - 1778)
Datec. 1748
MediumEtching on paper
DimensionsPlate: 5 1/8 × 10 1/2 inches (13 × 26.7 cm)
Portfolio/SeriesPlate 8, "Antichità romane de’ tempi della repubblica e de’ primi imperatori disegnate ed incise da Giambattista Prianesi architetetto veneziano" series
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Julianna F. Waring.
Object number2020.17.5
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