Description: Original etching 35 x 70 cms, ´plus 10 cms of margins at each side. At the bottom left corner is printed Cav. Gio. Batt. Piranesi. The plate is depicting a perspective view of one of the Newdigate candelabra, with ram's and lion's heads at the angles. The candelabrum along with another piece of similar quality were bought from Piranesi's workshop by the British grand-tourist Sir Roger Newdigate during his second tour in 1774-5. The pair were presented to the University of Oxford and set up in the Radcliffe Camera, before being moved to the Ashmolean Museum in 1846. Although purported to be restorations from fragments of antique marble from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, it is likely that the candelabra were instead constructed by Piranesi in an antique style. The plate is dedicated to 'the English Knight, Sir Charles Morris.This kind of objects were the outcome of the works of Piranesi as restorer and dealer in antiquities. master in the integration of ancient sculptural fragments with the result of fancy objects that caught the imagination and taste of the "grand tour" travelers in Rome. His clientel were active buyers of these antiquities that nowadays are displayed in the most important museums worldwide. The text mentions that the vase was preserved at the Piranesi museum at palazzo Tomati in Rome.This etching comes from the Parisian edition printed by his son Francesco. The quality of the etching and impression are excellent. Ref Figacci Piranesi 2016 Taschen pg 701.Original etching 35 x 70 cms, ´plus 10 cms of margins at each side. At the bottom left corner is printed Cav. Gio. Batt. Piranesi. The plate is depicting a perspective view of one of the Newdigate candelabra, with ram's and lion's heads at the angles. The candelabrum along with another piece of similar quality were bought from Piranesi's workshop by the British grand-tourist Sir Roger Newdigate during his second tour in 1774-5. The pair were presented to the University of Oxford and set up in the Radcliffe Camera, before being moved to the Ashmolean Museum in 1846. Although purported to be restorations from fragments of antique marble from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, it is likely that the candelabra were instead constructed by Piranesi in an antique style. The plate is dedicated to 'the Eng
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