Giuseppe Vasi

Nobil'Edifizio a diporto in Luogo di Delizia - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1776

1776

Image dimensions: 19 x 25 cm. Landscape is an original etching on paper realized by Claudio di Lorena. Signed on the plate, on the lower left. plate no. 23, written lower on the ri...

Monastero e Chiesa dei SS. Domenico is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome. ...

Palazzo Pontificio is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th Century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome. Signed and titled ...

Giardino e Casino Pontificio is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome. Signed ...

Convento dei Padri Eremiti di S. Agostino is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of R...

Chiesa di S. Venanzio is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome. Signed and tit...

This large framed 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi entitled "Veduta della Basilica di S. Lorenzo fuor della mura" (Basilica of San Lorenzo Outside the Walls), published in Rome in 1750 in Piranesi's Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome), This etching depicts the Basilica of San Lorenzo Outside the Walls, which is a Roman Catholic papal basilica and parish church, located in Rome, Italy. The Basilica is one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and one of the five "papal basilicas". It was built as a shrine to the martyred Roman deacon St. Lawrence. This Piranesi etching is held by many museums and institutions, including: The Metropolitan Museum, The British Museum, The National Gallery of Art, The Yale University Art Gallery, and The Harvard Museum of Art. This magnificent etching is presented in a brown-colored wood frame and a tan French...

By Giuseppe Vasi after Giovanni Piranesi: Etching and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on laid paper with an E and R watermark, full margins. Minor...

c. 1654. Etching with engraving on thin laid paper with an early and large unidentified watermark with a sundial and a many-pointed star, and an unidentified collector's stamp in the...

This framed 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi is entitled "Dimostransi nella Tav. presente la Pianta, ed Elevazione del Ponte, oggi detto Quattro Capi egli è antichissimo, e chiamavasi Fabrizio da L. Fabrizio Presid. delle Strade, che lo fabbrico' nel fine della Repubblica. "(The Plan and Elevation of the Bridge, today called Quattro Capi. The architect is very ancient, and was called Fabrizio da L. Fabrizio Presid. delle Strade, who built it at the end of the Republic). This is plate 18 in volume 4 of Piranesi's "Le antichita romane opera di Giambatista Piranesi architetto veneziano" (Roman antiquities by Giambatista Piranesi Venetian architect). It was published in Rome in 1756-1757. This etching depicts the plan and elevation of the bridge now called the Ponte dei Quattoro Capi or Ponte Cestio (Bridge of the Four Heads), which in antiquity was called the Bridge of Fabricius after L. Fabricius, the Superintendant of the Streets who built it at the end of the Republic, around 62 BC. It was also been known in the Middle Ages as ‘Ponte Giudeo’ (Bridge of the Jews). The bridge crossed from the left bank or northeast side of the Tiber River to Tiber Island...

This early 19th century etching entitled "Veduta degl' Avanzi delle Torri di Belisario Dalla parte che guarda l' Interno della Città, vicino a Porta S. Giovanni, A. Mura Aureliane" (...

Etching on Chine collé mounted to cream wove paper, 3 5/8 x 5 1/8 (90 x 129 mm), full margins. With a pencil notation in the right margin on the recto (outside of image area), as we...