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Plate 20: Tomb of Caecilia Metella called the Capo di Bove (Ox Head) (Sepolcro di Metela detto Capo di Bove), from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte di quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy)
ca. 1748
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Plate: 5 1/4 × 10 5/8 in. (13.3 × 27 cm) Sheet: 12 13/16 × 19 1/8 in. (32.6 × 48.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 37.45.3(89)
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Plate 20: Tomb of Caecilia Metella called the Capo di Bove (Ox Head) (Sepolcro di Metela detto Capo di Bove), from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte di quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy). 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
Plate 20: Tomb of Caecilia Metella called the Capo di Bove (Ox Head) (Sepolcro di Metela detto Capo di Bove), from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte di quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1748.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 5 1/4 × 10 5/8 in. (13.3 × 27 cm) Sheet: 12 13/16 × 19 1/8 in. (32.6 × 48.6 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.