Quickly mastering the medium of etching, Piranesi went on reconstructing the ancient Rome in painstaking detail. The son of a stonemason, he received extensive training in structural and hydraulic engineering, perspective construction, and stage design. Upon his arrival in Rome in 1740, he apprenticed briefly1080 under Giuseppe Vasi, a well-known creator of the etched views of Rome. One of the greatest printmakers of the 18th century, Piranesi always considered himself an architect. Please note that we have a collection of 7 identically framed lithographic prints of Piranesi's works, listed separately. They can be seen together in the last picture.ĭimensions with frame: 28.5" x 22.5" (72 x 57 cm).ĭimensions of engraving inside the frame: 23.5" x 17.5" (60 x 44.5 cm). The lithographic print of Piranesi's engraving was produced by the 19th-century publishing house Lehmann & Wentsel in Vienna. II (Vases, candelabra, grave stones, sarcophagi, tripods, lamps, and ornaments). It was a part of the collection Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi, Lucerne, ed Ornamenti Antichi, vol. The original 18th-century Piranesi engraving is titled Veduta in Prospettiva d'un Antico Vaso Cinerario di Marmo (Perspective View of an Ancient Cinerary Marble Vessel). Otherwise the engraving is in a very good condition for its age. There is an expected visible fold line across the sheet, as this was issued as a double-fold print. It's in very nice condition for a print of, of this era.Ī retail value would be around $2,500 to $3,000.ĪPPRAISER: So I, I'm glad you saved it from the rain.ĪPPRAISER: Well, it may be time to get it out of the garage.19th-century lithographic print of an 18th-century copper plate engraving by the prolific Italian artist and engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). GUEST: (chuckling): I, I haven't done anything with it.ĪPPRAISER: Well, just take it to a decent framer, get rid of that mat.īut otherwise, it's, it's not torn, it's not stained, it's not glued down. The lack of the centerfold, because the early editions were, almost always had centerfolds.Īnd then the later editions had extra numbers put on them.Ĭondition-wise, you got sort of a junky mat here.ĪPPRAISER: (chuckling): But that's what it came with. GUEST: How did you know it was the Paris edition?ĪPPRAISER: Partly it's the watermark, is one way you tell, and another way, along the bottom over here, that's his original address and the price. APPRAISER: Of each print.ĪPPRAISER: And then there are hundreds of prints in this series. There's lots of different editions of the Piranesis, but in the, the first Paris edition, you're looking at somewhere in the mid- to high hundreds were, were printed. This is printed later, probably from the first Paris edition, probably was published between 1800. The print was first made in 1759 or 1760. They then excavated it out, and that arch is still there, and it looks a whole lot more impressive. So it just was, all this junky soil was there. This ground is now probably ten or 15 feet lower.ĪPPRAISER: Because the land kept flooding, and they never cleaned it out. We call that area- basically through here- the Roman Forum now, and this is the arch itself. It's the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome. This print is from the, Piranesi's most famous series, the "Views of Rome," or the "Vedute di Roma," which was popular in his day and has been popular ever since. GUEST: I always thought it was something special, but I didn't really know much about it, and I wanted to find out more about it before I got it framed.ĪPPRAISER: It's an etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, uh, who was a major Italian printmaker, the major architectural etcher of the 18th century, and actually a personal favorite of, of mine. GUEST: No, we have moved quite a bit, and so it's been sitting in a cardboard box in our garage. Just, anything that he wasn't interested in, he tossed out.ĪPPRAISER: And when did you save it from the rain?ĪPPRAISER: Have you had it hanging since then, or you just. GUEST: No, he usually got stuff from estate sales, and he. (chuckles) APPRAISER: Did the friend you ha, got it from have any idea as to what it was? GUEST: One of my friends was getting rid of a bunch of stuff, and he had left this in his front porch, and it was about to rain, so I didn't want to get it wet. (chuckles) APPRAISER: And how did you happen to acquire this print? GUEST: So I brought a print by I believe an artist Piranesi.
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