Giovanni Battista PIRANESI
The Egyptian Obelisque Piazza di San Giovanni Laterano
1759

Medium
etching

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1965

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
H 53 I-II

Accession Number
1479-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Subjects (general)
Cityscapes Monuments and Memorials

Subjects (specific)
hieroglyphics Italy (nation) obelisks (monumental pillars) piazzas (squares) Rome (inhabited place)

Movements
Neoclassicism