This large-format drawing shows an altar or tripod excavated in Ostia in 1775 by the Scottish painter Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798). Piranesi’s workshop produced an etching of this richly decorated monument with a serpent moving up its flank.
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Album 1, Leaf 45
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