View of the fountainhead and the Grotto of Egiria outside the Porta Capena

1760–78

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; second state of five
Dimensions: sheet: 20 5/8 x 29 13/16 in. (52.4 x 75.7 cm) plate: 15 13/16 x 27 1/8 in. (40.2 x 68.9 cm)
Collection no.: 2012.136.917
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. View of the fountainhead and the Grotto of Egiria outside the Porta Capena. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. 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

View of the fountainhead and the Grotto of Egiria outside the Porta Capena — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 1760–78.

Medium: Etching; second state of five. Dimensions: sheet: 20 5/8 x 29 13/16 in. (52.4 x 75.7 cm) plate: 15 13/16 x 27 1/8 in. (40.2 x 68.9 cm).

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

Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.

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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