The Arch of Septimius Severus (Arco di Severo, e Caracalla)

ca. 1756

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 4 1/2 × 10 11/16 in. (11.5 × 27.2 cm) Sheet: 7 3/8 × 12 15/16 in. (18.8 × 32.9 cm)
Collection no.: 58.580.13
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The Arch of Septimius Severus (Arco di Severo, e Caracalla). Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Louise Bechtel, 1958. 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 Arch of Septimius Severus (Arco di Severo, e Caracalla) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1756.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 4 1/2 × 10 11/16 in. (11.5 × 27.2 cm) Sheet: 7 3/8 × 12 15/16 in. (18.8 × 32.9 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Louise Bechtel, 1958.

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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