Ruined buildings - Italy

Date: 1759

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-091-011

Description: View of the Roman temple of Antonio and Faustina with its ancient columns enclosing the Baroque facade of the Church of Saint Lorenzo in Mirandi in the Forum, Rome Other Titles - View of the Temple of Antonio and Faustina (San Lorenzo in Mirandi) in the cow field (the Forum) [translation] Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 403 x 542 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 467 x 712 mm

Date: 1772

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-091-036

Description: The arch of Septimus Severus in the middle ground of the Forum, Rome, with a column built by Caligula on the left, the baroque Church of S. Martina to the right Other Titles - The arch of Septimus Severus [translation] Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 410 x 454 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 465 x 710 mm

Date: 1640 - 1660

By: Henriet, Israel, 1590-1661; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-010-043

Description: View of Roman ruins Possibly a scene from Silvestre, Israel. Veues d'Italie. Paris, Israel Henriet, 1654 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 66 x 122 mm (platemark) on sheet 76 x 129 mm

Date: 1906

From: Various artists :[Two New Zealand autograph albums including watercolour landscapes of Auckland. ca 1895 - 1896]

By: Jourdain, D L, active 1906-1934

Reference: E-895-021

Description: Sketch shows a view of the ruins of the Roman Forum through an archway. The title "The glory that was Rome" is executed with ornate inital capitals. An autograph from Rangi [Rangimahora Iles?] of Rotorua includes a quotation from Shakespere [sic], dated 12 May 1907. Extended Title - From "Writing album; album for poetry, prose & autographs" (begun 1896), page [21 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on green album page 250 x 200 mm.

Date: 1759

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-091-027

Description: The ruins of two adjoining ancient Roman temples Other Titles - Temples of the Sun and Moon, or of Isis and Serapis (Temple of Venus and Rome) [translation] Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 406 x 547 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 466 x 712 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: 1946-1951

From: Perry, Thomas James, fl 1930-1960 :Photographs relating to Thomas James Perry

Reference: PA1-q-911

Description: Album begins in Trieste, Italy, in 1946. As well as views of the town there are pictures of allied occupying troops parading, Tito Youth marching, and communists landing illegally from small boats in the harbour. Most of the rest of the album records a trip through Italy and France made by Perry and a group of friends during 1946-1947. A large part of the album contains images of the ruins and antiquities of Rome, Ostia, Veii, Pompeii, and Herculaneum. A page of photographs record the gigantic war memorial and cemetery at Redipuglia. Commissioned by Mussolini, it commemorates a hundred thousand soldiers of the Italian Third Army who died in the First World War. There are three breaks filled with images of England. One is of a house and garden at Wappenbury, just south-east of Coventry, another is of unidentified rural scenes and friends and family. The third is two pages of the 1951 motor racing events at Silverstone which was the venue for the Grand Prix of Britain. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1757

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-091-046

Description: The centre of the Roman Forum with the Palatine Hill to the left, the Aventine Hill in the background Other Titles - View of site of the ancient Roman Forum [translation] Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 374 x 588 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 468 x 712 mm

Date: 1936-1938

From: MacGowan, Mary, fl 1936-1938 :Photographs of family friends and a world trip

Reference: PAColl-8692-4

Description: Mary MacGowan's journey out to new Zealand is represented by 8 photographs relating to Panama and the Panama Canal. There are some photographs collected during holidays in New Zealand which include views of Wairakei, Mount Ngauruhoe, Christchurch, Lake Kanieri, and Hongi's Track. Most of the photographs are associated with Mary's return trip to England. She left Wellington for Sydney on the "Awatea" visiting Hobart, Tasmania, and spending enough time in Australia to see Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. From Sydney she sailed for home on the "Orontes" via the Suez Canal. Groups of photographs record deck life and other passengers, the warves, people and places visited while in Colombo, Sri lanka (Ceylon), the approaches to Suez and a visit to the pyramids sphinx and temples in Egypt, a stop at Naples and a lot of photographs and some postcards of Pompeii, and finally views of Gibraltar including one of a Spainish guard at the boarder post. Quantity: 102 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1776

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-091-004

Description: The arch of Constantine in the centre foreground with the Colosseum beyond. Also marked are the bases of the Palatine and Esquiline hills and the remains of the Baths of Tito. Other Titles - View of the arch of Constantine and the Flavian amphitheatre, known as the Colosseum [translation] Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 410 x 454 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 465 x 710 mm

Date: 1913 - 1920

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-072-021-a

Description: An archway, partially ruined, in Rome. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 149 x 88 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1913 - 1920

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-072-021

Description: An archway, partially ruined, in Rome. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 149 x 88 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1756

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-091-003

Description: Looking down on the site of the ancient Roman Forum with the remains of arches, columns, walls and other parts of buildings, the Palatine Hill on the right, and the top of the Colosseum in the distant background Other Titles - View of the cow field (the Forum) [translation] Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 408 x 544 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 466 x 713 mm

Date: 1860

By: Gilfillan, John Gordon, 1839-1875; Atkins, Agnes Meta, 1891-1979

Reference: A-090-030

Description: A landscape with temples and other ancient ruins, cows grazing in a river, trees and hills beyond. Probably an imaginary location May be a copy of a work by an earlier artist. Is reminiscent of the work of Claude Lorrain, but no exact source has been found Inscriptions: On backing board in pencil, 'Painted by J G Gilfillan in 1860' Probably painted by John Gordon Gilfillan who lived in New Zealand until 1847 as a young man, moving with his father (John Alexander Gilfillan) to Australia, then returned to New Zealand, drowning in Lake Rotorua in 1875. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 280 mm Provenance: The donor was a descendant of the Gilfillan family.

Date: 1757

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-091-013

Description: The remains of the Basilica of Constantine in Rome, showing three arches, the frontage and the ceiling pattern Other Titles - View of the remains of the Temple of Peace (the Basilica of Constantine) [translation] Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 414 x 547 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 469 x 712 mm

Date: 1759

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-091-012

Description: A tall Eyptian obelisk in the square of St John Lateran in Rome. In the background are the ruins of an aquaduct, to the right, a three-storied palace, and beyond to the right, the building housing the Scala Santa Other Titles - Egyptian obelisk. This was raised by Sixtus V in the Square of Saint John Lateran. 1. Palace built by Sixtus V now the Conservatory of Zitelle. 2. The Sacred Stairs. 3. Ruins of ancient aquaducts [translation] Extended Title - Questo fu eretto da Sisto V nella Piazza di S. Gio. Laterano. 1. Palazzo eretto da Sisto V ora Conservatorio di Zitelle. 2. Scala Santi. 3. Rovine di aquadotti antichi. From Le vedute di Roma, 1745 to 1778. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 541 x 401 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 714 x 465 mm