View of the exterior of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

ca. 1748

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; first state of seven (Hind)
Dimensions: Sheet: 19 7/8 x 27 9/16 in. (50.5 x 70 cm) Plate: 15 13/16 x 24 in. (40.2 x 61 cm)
Collection no.: 55.567.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. View of the exterior of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views). Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955. 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 exterior of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1748.

Medium: Etching; first state of seven (Hind). Dimensions: Sheet: 19 7/8 x 27 9/16 in. (50.5 x 70 cm) Plate: 15 13/16 x 24 in. (40.2 x 61 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, 1955.

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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