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Map of the Menagerie of Wild Beasts Made by Domitian

Artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, October 4, 1720–November 9, 1778)
Title Map of the Menagerie of Wild Beasts Made by Domitian
Plate Number Plate 53
Series Roman Antiquities (volume 4)
Date 1756-1757
Medium Etching on paper
Dimensions Image: 14 1/4 × 23 7/16 in. (36.2 × 59.5 cm)
Plate: 15 11/16 × 23 5/8 in. (39.8 × 60 cm)
Sheet: 21 3/8 × 27 1/2 in. (54.3 × 69.9 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Edwin S. & Sue Ramage, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 2013.177

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Publisher Angelo Rotili
Plate Number Plate 53
Series Title Roman Antiquities (volume 4)
Foreign Language Series Title Le Antichità Romane (tome IV)

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