Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Différentes vues de quelques restes de trois grands édifices : qui subsistent encore dans le milieu de l'ancienne ville de Pesto autrement Posidonia qui est située dans la Lucanie.
Call Number
Oversize NA1123.P6 P5 1807e
Identifier
ark:/88435/kk91fs504
Publisher
[Paris] : [Calcographie Piranesi], [1800-1807] ( [Rome], [1778])
Language
French
Date Created
1778-1807
Extent
XX plates : all illustrations (etchings) ; 86 x 59 cm (fol)
References
Hind, A.M., Piranesi, 1922, p. 19, 87
Focillon, H. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Essai de catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1918), 582
Cicognara. Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichitá, 2701
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Most of the plates are signed by Giambattista Piranesi, with the exception of the title page and plates XVI, XIX, and XX, which are signed by his son Francesco Piranesi.
Engravings printed on recto only, each with a tissue guard-leaf.
Binding Note
Princeton copy: Bound in red half morocco over marbled boards by Jean-Joseph Tessier in Paris, between 1800-1807; Tessier's label (affixed to front pastedown) reads: "Rue de la Harpe, Au-dessus de celle de Médecine, no. 132; Tessier/ Relieur et doureur/ De la Trésorerie nationale du Bureau/ de la Guerre/ et Calcographie piranesi/ A Paris"; spine divided into eight compartments decorated with gold-tooled designs; blue endpapers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Paestum (Extinct city)—Early works to 1800
Temples—Italy—Paestum (Extinct city)—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count
29

Institutional Information

Collection
Piranesi on the Page
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d04a5750-f2d2-4dcf-943a-55eef1f470b3/manifest