Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the thirty-fourth sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Blatt 34 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Eagle bas-relief, folded, Relief with arched niches, figures in sailing boats and friezes with hunting scenes and sea creatures activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
activate zoom zoom tool Blatt 35

Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Red chalk and chalk drawing of an eagle bas-relief from the portico of the Santi Apostoli church in Rome
  • Visible reflectance photograph Verso with a red chalk sketch of a tip of a pen and handwritten inscriptions
  • Visible reflectance photograph Relief with round-arched niches from the Pantanello at Hadrian's Villa, depicting figures in sailing boats, with friezes showing hunting scenes and sea creatures, drawn in black chalk
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Album 1, Leaf 35

The proud eagle on the red-chalk drawing was copied from a relief in the porch of the Santi Apostoli church in Rome. The sheet’s dimensions were larger than the album’s, so it had to be folded. The brisk penwork in the black overdrawing is probably the mark of Giovanni Battista Piranesi himself and records losses and structural flaws in the ancient relief. The drawing’s verso (glued to the album leaf and not visible) also contains inscriptions in his hand.

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