DETAILS
- Artist
- Francesco Piranesi
- Date
- 1743
- Medium
- Etching with hand-coloring
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- sheet: 27 3/4 x 19 1/8 in. (70.5 x 48.6 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1969
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