Ancient mausoleum erected for the ashes of a Roman Emperor (Mausoleo antico eretto per le ceneri d'un Imperadore Romano), 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 3/16 × 9 15/16 in. (36 × 25.2 cm) Plate (Inscription): 7/8 × 10 1/16 in. (2.3 × 25.6 cm) Sheet: 19 1/2 × 13 1/4 in. (49.5 × 33.7 cm)
Collection no.: 37.45.3(6)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Ancient mausoleum erected for the ashes of a Roman Emperor (Mausoleo antico eretto per le ceneri d'un Imperadore Romano), 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

Ancient mausoleum erected for the ashes of a Roman Emperor (Mausoleo antico eretto per le ceneri d'un Imperadore Romano), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive" — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1750.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate (Image): 14 3/16 × 9 15/16 in. (36 × 25.2 cm) Plate (Inscription): 7/8 × 10 1/16 in. (2.3 × 25.6 cm) Sheet: 19 1/2 × 13 1/4 in. (49.5 × 33.7 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.

Artwork sources

Image source