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Figures pass under a small wide archway flanked by the high walls of a crumbling city. To the l…
Foro di Augusto.
Figures pass under a small wide archway flanked by the high walls of a crumbling city. To the l…
Figures pass under a small wide archway flanked by the high walls of a crumbling city. To the left are three enormous Corinthian columns overgrown with vegetation.
Foro di Augusto, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1748, etching on paper, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Foro di Augusto.

Artist (Italian, 1720 - 1778)
Datec. 1748
MediumEtching on paper
DimensionsPlate: 5 1/4 × 10 3/8 inches (13.3 × 26.4 cm)
Portfolio/SeriesPlate 15, "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 number2020.17.12
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