Remains of a covered portico, or a cryptoportiucus, in a villa of Domitian, five miles outside Rome on the Frascati road, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

ca. 1766

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; second state of four (Hind)
Dimensions: Sheet: 20 11/16 x 28 15/16 in. (52.5 x 73.5 cm) Plate: 16 7/8 x 24 in. (42.8 x 61 cm)
Collection no.: 37.17.6
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Remains of a covered portico, or a cryptoportiucus, in a villa of Domitian, five miles outside Rome on the Frascati road, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views). 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

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Remains of a covered portico, or a cryptoportiucus, in a villa of Domitian, five miles outside Rome on the Frascati road, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1766.

Medium: Etching; second state of four (Hind). Dimensions: Sheet: 20 11/16 x 28 15/16 in. (52.5 x 73.5 cm) Plate: 16 7/8 x 24 in. (42.8 x 61 cm).

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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