Album 2
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the twenty-ninth sheet, Album 2 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 29 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Folded Two soldiers and frieze depicting a Victory garland activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
activate zoom zoom tool Leaf 30

Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Pen, chalk and graphite drawing of a Rhyton candelabra with a drinking horn decorated with a boar's head on a tiered, ornamentally designed pedestal
  • Incident light image. Chalk drawing of two soldiers, below Victory garland frieze with two Victory figures from Piranesi's etching of the Column of Marc Aurel
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Album 2, Leaf 30

The large sheet pasted in on this leaf was larger than the dimensions of the album, so that initially all one sees is one half of the verso. Unfolding the sheet, however, reveals the design for a rhyton, which was indeed produced as a three-dimensional object in Piranesi’s workshop from a combination of antique and modern material.

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