Polanzani, Francesco, 1700-1783

Date: 1750

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Polanzani, Francesco, 1700-1783

Reference: C-091-001

Description: Head and shoulders three-quarters frontal portrait of artist and architect, G. B. Piranesi aged 30, against a background of swirling clouds, with a book and leaves above a title chiselled in stone Other Titles - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Venetian architect [translation] Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778 (frontispiece) Bookplate glued to verso, in centre, has Latin motto Festina lente, and shows a dove surmounting a cloak, the upper part of a suit of armour, and a slanting shield with three scallop shells and two double sets of bars running horizontally. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 383 x 283 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 501 x 357 mm