A large marble vase on a porphyry pedestal. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
- Date:
- [between 1768 and 1778]
- Reference:
- 756426i
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Description
In another print of the same vase and pedestal from a different point of view, Piranesi seems to say that the pedestal belonged to Colin Morison: see Wellcome Library no. 756431i
Publication/Creation
[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [between 1768 and 1778]
Physical description
1 print : etching ; platemark 53.5 x 39 cm
Lettering
Al signor Guglielmo Vyse cavaliere inglese amatore e seguace belle arti in atto d'ossequio il cavaliere Gio. Batt.a Piranesi D.D.D. Vaso antico di gran mole che si vede nella villa dell'ecc.ma casa Lanti sul monte Gianicolo ... Il piede che al presente lo regge è di porfido e non corrisponde all proporzione del vaso ... Cavalier Piranesi delin. ed inc.
References note
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. 437 (William Guise), pp. 679-682 (Colin Morison, no mention of this base or of Piranesi)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 756426i
Creator/production credits
Dedicatee "Guglielmo Vyse": possibly Sir William Guise, 5th Baronet, of Elmore Court, Gloucestershire. He accompanied Edward Gibbon on their visit to Rome. His portrait was painted by Allan Ramsay in 1761 (A. Smart, Allan Ramsay, London 1999, no. 220; sold at Sotheby's, London, 2010(?))
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