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A marble vase sculpted with bacchic revels
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A marble vase sculpted with bacchic revels
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Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770

Physical description 1 print : etching ; platemark 53.5 x 39 cm.

Lettering Vaso antico di marmo di gran mole che vedesi nel palazzo della villa Borghese. Esistono in esso fauni, e baccanti, che danzano, un'de quali sostiene Sileno ubriaco A sua eccellenza il signor general Schouvaloff luogotenente generale delle armate di S.M.I. di tutte le Russie, suo ciambellano attuale. Capo del nobile corpo de'cadetti, institutore dell'Accademia delle belle arti, curatore della università di Mosca, e cavaliere degli ordini dell' Aquila bianca, di S.Alessandro Newsky, e di S.Anna, saggio, e dotto stimatore delle Romane antichità, e delle belle arti. In segno d'ossequio il cavaliere Gio. Batt.a Piranesi. Cavalier Piranesi del. e inc.

Note Plate to: G.B. Piranesi, Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne ed ornamenti, 1768-1778

Credits Dedicated to Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (1727-1797), a collector of Italian antiquities

References John Ingamells, A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 compiled from the Brinsley Ford archive, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1997, p. 236 (General Shuvalov, in Rome in February 1771)

Cite as Wellcome Library no. 756384i

Author, etc. Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778. Shuvalov, Ivan Ivanovich, 1727-1797.

Subject name Casino Borghese (Rome, Italy) Topic-LCSH Vases. Bacchantes. Silenus (Greek mythology) Place name Rome (Italy) Genre/Technique Etchings.

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Keywords: Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov; Casino Borghese (Rome, Italy); Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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