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A figure bends over by a stone arch entranceway on the left shaded by a leaning tree. The road …
Arco di Pola in Istria vicino alla Porta.
A figure bends over by a stone arch entranceway on the left shaded by a leaning tree. The road …
A figure bends over by a stone arch entranceway on the left shaded by a leaning tree. The road curves to the right revealing a high decrepit arch with double Corinthian pilasters before coming to a second entrance with walls embedded in the rockface to the right.
Arco di Pola in Istria vicino alla Porta, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1748, etching on paper, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Arco di Pola in Istria vicino alla Porta.

Artist (Italian, 1720 - 1778)
Datec. 1748
MediumEtching on paper
DimensionsPlate: 5 1/8 × 10 1/4 inches (13 × 26 cm)
Portfolio/SeriesPlate 24, "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 number2020.17.21
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