L'entrée de Pompeii / The Gate of Herculaneum: P.189-1951

Current Location: In storage

Titles

L'entrée de Pompeii / The Gate of Herculaneum

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Piranesi, Francesco
Draughtsman: Desprez, Louis Jean (After)

Entities

Print

Categories

Print

Description

View of the ruins of the Herculaneum gate at Pompeii, with tourists inspecting and a man with a wheelbarrow at centre foreground. Image surrounded by an engraved paper border. Other impressions in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, NMG 283/1883; and the British Museum, 1936,0717.2

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Campbell Dodgson, 1951

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1951) by Dodgson, Campbell

Dating

18th Century
Production date: circa AD 1789

School or Style

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.189-1951
Primary reference Number: 309869
Wollin: 8 (p.114)
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 12 July 2022 Updated: Tuesday 12 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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