Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the twenty-ninth sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 29 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Tabula ansata, Ash urn, Ship prows, Candelabra base activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
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Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Detailed studies for three fireplaces and a tabula ansata drawn in pen and chalk
  • Visible reflectance photograph Black chalk drawing of a ash urn with garland, pan masks, rosette with winged head of Medusa and bucranion, mainly only the left half executed in detail
  • Visible reflectance photograph Chalk drawing of two ships prows, the left one decorated with a Triton blowing a shell, the right one with lion heads and volute decoration
  • Incident light photograph of red chalk drawing of three acanthus leaves and numerous pen testing marks on the back of the sheet
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Album 1, Leaf 30

Two of the drawings here show Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s writing in red chalk, noting the location of the monuments they visually record: the Collegio Romano and the Temple of Giove Tonante.

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