Ruins of an ancient tomb in front of ruins of an ancient aqueduct (Ruine di Sepolcro antico posto dinanzi ad altre ruine d'un Aquedotto), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"

ca. 1750

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate (Image): 14 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (36.9 × 24.4 cm) Plate (Inscription): 13/16 × 9 3/4 in. (2 × 24.8 cm) Sheet: 19 7/16 × 13 3/16 in. (49.4 × 33.5 cm)
Collection no.: 37.45.3(10)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Ruins of an ancient tomb in front of ruins of an ancient aqueduct (Ruine di Sepolcro antico posto dinanzi ad altre ruine d'un Aquedotto), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive". Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Ruins of an ancient tomb in front of ruins of an ancient aqueduct (Ruine di Sepolcro antico posto dinanzi ad altre ruine d'un Aquedotto), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive" — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1750.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate (Image): 14 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (36.9 × 24.4 cm) Plate (Inscription): 13/16 × 9 3/4 in. (2 × 24.8 cm) Sheet: 19 7/16 × 13 3/16 in. (49.4 × 33.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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