Italy - Antiquities

Date: 1860s

From: Wilkie Loan Collection :Albumen photographs from the collection of Sir William Fox

Reference: PAColl-D-0197

Description: Detail on the Arch of Titus (on Via Sacra, Rome) at the entrance to the forum, showing spoils from the Sack of Jerusalem. It is the only contemporary depiction of sacred articles from the Temple of Jerusalem. The menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and trumpets are clearly depicted. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1860s Inscriptions: Mount recto - bottom right - Arch of Titus Rome Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 313 x 230 mm mounted on card

Date: 1760 - 1765 - 1761 - 1785

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-032

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, stairways and round arches springing from a square column with lions' heads. Focillon 38 Robson number 41. State 5 or 6 (mid-1760s to ca 1835). The first state was 1760 or 1761. 'Pier with a lamp' is the popular English title for this work Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. Pier with a lamp Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 547 x 413 mm on sheet 745 x 545 mm

Date: 1743

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-059

Description: Water and a palm tree in the foreground with the remains of colums and pedestals, a large carved funerary urn with the name Marcus Agrippa at its base, and the circular peristyle of a temple in the background Focillon 5 Other Titles - Remains of ancient edifices amongst which can be seen the funeral urn made of a single piece of porphyry for Marcus Aggripa, which today serves as the urn for Pope Clement XII. Part of an obelisk with Egyptian characters can also be seen, and in the background, the vestibule of an ancient ruined temple [translation] Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 387 x 239 mm on sheet 547 x 384 mm

Date: 1766

By: Morghen, Filipo, 1730-1807?; Canterbury Museum (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-102-035/057

Description: Scenes in the area of Naples, including Baia, Lake Avernus, Cumae, showing ruins, caves, and landscapes. Quantity: 26 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w ; each 296 x 393 mm on sheets 379 x 537 mm Provenance: Donation: Canterbury Museum, 1 March 1956

Date: 1760 - 1761

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-020

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, stairways, arches and a perspective of colonnades with zig-zag staircases. Focillon 37 Robison (1986) catalogue number 40. State iv. Early to mid 1760s Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The Gothic arch. Early to mid-1760s Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 412 x 543 mm on sheet 545 x 745 mm

Date: 1760 - 1762 - 1761 - 1775

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-025

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with a series of round arches rising to the right above bas-relief carvings of two lions in the foreground, and a carving of a bound prisoner with guards to the left Focillon 28 Robison catalogue number 44, state 2, early 1760s-ca 1835. Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The lion bas-relief Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 563 x 414 mm on sheet 745 x 545 mm

Date: 1743

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-050

Description: An imaginative reconstruction of the interior of an ancient Roman temple with its altar in the centre distance Focillon 12 Other Titles - Vestibule of an ancient temple, by which one entered the cella, through which one continued to the interior with three main naves. In the distance can be seen the large chapel where the principal altar for sacrifices is situated. [translation] Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 260 x 349 mm on sheet 383 x 535 mm

Date: 1760 - 1764 - 1761 - 1780

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-024

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, stairways, pulleys and a series of galleries with round arches. A ladder runs from floor level to a high point on the left Focillon 34 Robison catalogue number 37, state 5 or 6 (mid-1770s-ca 1835). Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The arch with a shell ornament Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 404 x 546 mm on sheet 545 x 745 mm

Date: 1760 - 1765 - 1761 - 1774

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-030

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, pulleys, platforms, (one with prisoners), stairways and round arches in a vast gallery Focillon 33 Robison catalogue number 36, state 4 or 5, mid-1760s to early 1770s. First state was 1760 or 1761. 'Prisoners on a projecting platform' is the popular English title for this work. Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. Prisoners on a projecting platform Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 412 x 543 mm on sheet 545 x 745 mm

Date: 1743

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-054

Description: An imaginative reconstruction of the interior of an ancient Roman building with short flights of stairs between clusters of columns and arches and the theatrical rotunda in the background Focillon 10 Other Titles - Group of staircases adorned with magnificent architecture, arranged so that they lead to various levels, and in particular to a rotunda which serves for theatrical representations [translation] Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 260 x 349 mm on sheet 383 x 535 mm

Date: 1913 - 1920

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-072-008

Description: Two mature cypress trees, close to a fountain, with a garden and cloisters beyond, probably in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme di Diocleziano, in the Piazza dei Cinquecenti, Rome. Dating: a premliminary drawing for this etching is in a sketchbook dated May 1913 (E-066-q-1-042). The etching reproduces the trees in reverse, compared with the drawing Other Titles - The cypress trees of Michaelangelo, Rome Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 180 x 125 mm

Date: 1743

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-058

Description: The remains of arches, columns, carved tombs, etc with a stream of water emerging from a hole in a wall in the background Focillon 6 Other Titles - Ruins of ancient tombs placed in front of other ruins of a more ancient aquaduct ; above its arches can be seen the canal through which water flowed into Rome. [translation] Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 388 x 243 mm on sheet 547 x 384 mm

Date: 1743

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-064

Description: An imaginative reconstruction of the interior of the temple of the Vestal Virgins with its altar and eternal flame inside a rotunda with colums on the left. A semi-circular staircase rises towards the altar on the right. Focillon 17 Other Titles - Ancient temple devised and drawn in the manner of those which used to be built in honour of the Goddess Vesta; in the centre can be seen the great altar upon which the Vestal Virgins kept the sacred flame burning for ever. [Partial translation] Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 397 x 253 mm on sheet 542 x 384 mm

Date: 1760 - 1763 - 1761 - 1773

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-028

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, stairways and round arches above a line of smaller, lower arches with bars. Ladders and a sawhorse to the right Focillon 34 Robison catalogue number 38, state 4, early 1760s to early 1770s. Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The sawhorse. Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 412 x 552 mm on sheet 545 x 745 mm

Date: 1760 - 1761

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-019

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, stairways, pulleys, showing a wide hall with a low timbered roof, and a pier in the foreground Focillon 39 Robison (1986) catalogue number 42. State iv, early to mid-1760s Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The pier with chains. Early to mid-1760s Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 547 x 413 mm on sheet 745 x 545 mm

Date: 1913 - 1920

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-072-015

Description: An umbrella pine and a grove of cypress trees, houses in the background and ruins in the foreground, including part of a fluted column Dating: W F Barraud visited Rome in May 1913, making a number of drawings relating to his Italian etchings Other Titles - Rome, Italy Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in pencil; Recto - bottom right - signature in pencil Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 198 x 146 mm (platemark) on sheet 313 x 249 mm

Date: 1860s

From: Wilkie Loan Collection :Albumen photographs from the collection of Sir William Fox

Reference: PAColl-D-0198

Description: Photograph of part of the Colosseum showing the structural detail (ie arches). Taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1860s Inscriptions: Mount recto - bottom right - Colliseum Rome Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 373 x 280 mm mounted on card

Date: 1743

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-062

Description: An imaginative reconstruction of the Imperial forum on the Palatine hill Focillon 13 Other Titles - Ancient Roman forum surrounded by porches with loggias, some of which lead to the imperial palace and others to the prisons. This forum above all is adorned with magnificent stairways alongside which are equestrian statues and fountains [translation] Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 264 x 357 mm on sheet 384 x 547 mm

Date: 1913 - 1920

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-072-012

Description: The dark shape of the ruins of the Roman Teatro di Marcello on the left, with more modern buildings and the dome of a church at the end of the street on the right. Several people in the street. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 177 x 125 mm (plate-mark)

Date: 1760 - 1764 - 1761 - 1775

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: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-023

Description: The imaginary exterior of a Roman prison, with a massive prison door of stone, surmounted by a colossal wheel-shaped opening Focillon 32 Robison catalogue number 35, state 6 or 7 (mid-1760s to ca 1835). Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The giant wheel Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 550 x 406 mm on sheet 745 x 545 mm