Title page from "Roman Antiquity of the Time of the Republic and the First Emperors" (Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori)

ca. 1748

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 9 1/4 × 14 1/16 in. (23.5 × 35.7 cm) Sheet: 12 15/16 in. × 19 in. (32.8 × 48.3 cm)
Collection no.: 37.45.3(68)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Title page from "Roman Antiquity of the Time of the Republic and the First Emperors" (Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori). 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

About this artwork

Title page from "Roman Antiquity of the Time of the Republic and the First Emperors" (Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1748.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 9 1/4 × 14 1/16 in. (23.5 × 35.7 cm) Sheet: 12 15/16 in. × 19 in. (32.8 × 48.3 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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