Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the thirtieth sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 30 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Capital, ash urn on a corbel, Chimney pillar activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
activate zoom zoom tool Leaf 31

Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Red chalk and chalk drawing of a capital from Hadrian's villa in Tivoli and detailed studies
  • Visible reflectance photograph Fragment of a landscape drawing made with red chalk with overgrown ruins at the lower and left edge of the picture
  • Visible reflectance photograph Workpiece of sarcophagus garland drawn with black chalk
  • Visible reflectance photograph Fragment of a drawing: a longitudinal line running through the entire sheet, from which several orthogonal lines ascending to the upper edge of the sheet
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Album 1, Leaf 31

With time, these drawings have all rubbed off onto the leaf opposite, after lying pressed against it in the album’s closed state. The adhesive from the glue spots has halted the discolouration of the album paper while the rest has visibly aged. In these spots the paper is closer to the whiteness it originally displayed in Piranesi’s day.

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