Description: Original etching. 68 x 49 cm. The plate represents the first tavern and its kitchen area at Pompeii. The plate was included in the work, "Antiquités de la grande Grece". The quality of this excellent rendering by Francesco Piranesi was based on drawings and notes taken by his father Giovanni Baptista Piranesi and himself since 1770 and 1778. these views were printed at Paris 1804 and different issues appeared up to 1837. This etching is printed on excellent wove paper.Piranesi collaborated with the architect Louis Jean Desprez on a series of views of Pompeii that were not completed and probably were the basis for this later publication that was supported by Napoleon. The dramatic character and traces resemble William Blake and the chiaroscuro used by Goya in his etchings.Original etching. 68 x 49 cm. The plate represents the first tavern and its kitchen area at Pompeii. The plate was included in the work, "Antiquités de la grande Grece". The quality of this excellent rendering by Francesco Piranesi was based on drawings and notes taken by his father Giovanni Baptista Piranesi and himself since 1770 and 1778. these views were printed at Paris 1804 and different issues appeared up to 1837. This etching is printed on excellent wove paper. Piranesi collaborated with the architect Louis Jean Desprez on a series of views of Pompeii that were not completed and probably were the basis for this later publication that was supported by Napoleon. The dramatic character and traces resemble William Blake and the chiaroscuro used by Goya in his etchings.
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