Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the twenty-eighth sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 28 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Youthful Hercules, capital with genii, Pegasus capital activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
activate zoom zoom tool Leaf 29

Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Drawing in black pen and grey wash of a soffit with youthful Hercules in the center and leafy vines from the Temple of Venus Genetrix at the Forum of Caesar
  • Visible reflectance photograph Acanthus leaf, lower part of a floral pilaster relief, drawn with black chalk
  • Visible reflectance photograph Capital with winged genii, garland and eagle, drawn in red chalk over black chalk, from Palazzo Massimo
  • Visible reflectance photograph Faint graphite sketch of a base on the back of the sheet
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Album 1, Leaf 29

On the unglued page on the left (verso of leaf 28), the inscription of an etching by Piranesi clearly shows through. Obviously sorted out in the workshop, the unprinted sheet was used as drawing paper (Inv. IX 5159-35-28-3v).

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