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View through the Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii by Giovanni Battista Piranesi — VisualArtsDB

View through the Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii

View through the Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1778

Medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk
Dimensions: 11 x 16 3/4 in. (28 x 42.5 cm)
Genre: Drawing
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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View of the Basilica of S. Lorenzo fuori delle Mura [S. Lorenzo outside the Walls], from Views of Rome

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