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The Baths of Caracalla
Public Domain

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Baths of Caracalla

1765

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Baths of Caracalla

1765

Physical Qualities Etching, engraving, and stipple, Sheet: 529 x 729 mm. (20 13/16 x 28 11/16 in.) Plate: 431 x 656 mm. (16 15/16 x 25 13/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series From the series "Views of Rome"
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.15839
Jay Fisher, BMA, "The Antique as Inspiration: Eighteenth-Century European Drawings and Prints," 27 June - 26 September 1993.

Mark Alice Durant, BMA, "Front Room: Notes on Monumentality," 27 February - 25 May 2008.

Inscribed: lower right in plate: "Rovine del Sisto, o sia della gran sala / delle terme Antoniane / Cavalier Piranesi F"

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