The tomb of Caecilia Metella, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

ca. 1762

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; first state of five (Hind)
Dimensions: Sheet: 27 3/4 x 20 7/8 in. (70.5 x 53 cm) Plate: 24 7/16 x 17 5/16 in. (62 x 44 cm)
Collection no.: 56.581.6
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The tomb of Caecilia Metella, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views). Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956. 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

The tomb of Caecilia Metella, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1762.

Medium: Etching; first state of five (Hind). Dimensions: Sheet: 27 3/4 x 20 7/8 in. (70.5 x 53 cm) Plate: 24 7/16 x 17 5/16 in. (62 x 44 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956.

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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