Hadrian's Villa: The Canopus (Avanzi del Tempio Dio Canopo nella Villa Adriana in Tivoli)

ca. 1769

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: etching
Collection no.: 37.17.4
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Hadrian's Villa: The Canopus (Avanzi del Tempio Dio Canopo nella Villa Adriana in Tivoli). Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Edward W. Root, Elihu Root Jr. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant III, 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

Hadrian's Villa: The Canopus (Avanzi del Tempio Dio Canopo nella Villa Adriana in Tivoli) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1769.

Medium: etching. Dimensions: .

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

Credit line: Gift of Edward W. Root, Elihu Root Jr. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant III, 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.

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