Remains of ancient buldings among which stands the sepulchral urn of Marcus Agrippa made entirely of porphyry, which serves today as the Tomb of Clement XII... (Vestiggi d'antichi Edifici fra i quali evvi l'Urna Sepolcrale tutta d'un pezzo di...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"

ca. 1750

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 15 1/4 × 9 5/16 in. (38.7 × 23.6 cm) Sheet: 19 1/2 × 13 1/4 in. (49.5 × 33.6 cm)
Collection no.: 37.45.3(8)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Remains of ancient buldings among which stands the sepulchral urn of Marcus Agrippa made entirely of porphyry, which serves today as the Tomb of Clement XII... (Vestiggi d'antichi Edifici fra i quali evvi l'Urna Sepolcrale tutta d'un pezzo di...), 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

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Remains of ancient buldings among which stands the sepulchral urn of Marcus Agrippa made entirely of porphyry, which serves today as the Tomb of Clement XII... (Vestiggi d'antichi Edifici fra i quali evvi l'Urna Sepolcrale tutta d'un pezzo di...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive" — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1750.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 15 1/4 × 9 5/16 in. (38.7 × 23.6 cm) Sheet: 19 1/2 × 13 1/4 in. (49.5 × 33.6 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.

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