Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian (1720 - 1778) Primary

View of the Ponte Salario

1754

Plate
15 13/16 in. x 24 3/16 in. (40.2 cm x 61.5 cm)

This object has the following keywords:

• architecture
• boats - Watercraft generally smaller and less seaworthy than ships and generally not designed to cross large open waters.
• bridges - Structures spanning and providing passage over waterways, topographic depressions, transportation routes, or similar circulation barriers.
• etchings - Prints made from an etched printing plate, which is a metal plate on which a design is made by coating the plate with an acid-resistant substance, creating a design in the coating, and then exposing the plate to acid, which etches the plate where the metal is exposed. For designs incised directly into a copper plate using a burin or graver, use "engravings (prints)."
• figures - Representations of humans, animals, or mythical beasts, in any medium.
• Italian - Refers to the culture of the modern nation of Italy, or in general to cultures that have occupied the boot-shaped Italian peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea.
• rivers - Bodies of water flowing in direct course or a series of divergents or converging channels.

• Plate Dimensions: 15 13/16 x 24 3/16 in. (40.2 x 61.5 cm)

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