Qualification:Spphinx crepied in Bronze, Trouve to Herculanum.
Author: f. PIRANESI DEL. SC.
Date: CA. 1805.
Measures: 680 x 490 mm ..
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 and different isssues appeared up to 1837. This ethching is printed on Excellent Wove Paper.Piranesi Collaborated with the Architect Louis Jean detaz on a series of views of pompeii snat were not completed and probablay were the basis for this late Publication that was supported by Napoleon.
The Dramatic Character and Traces Rebemble to William Blake and The Chiaroscuro used by Goya in His Etchings.