View of the Capitoline Hill with the Steps to the Church of S. Maria in Aracoeli (Veduta del Romano Campidoglio con Scalinata che va’ alla Chiesa d’Araceli)

Title: View of the Capitoline Hill with the Steps to the Church of S. Maria in Aracoeli (Veduta del Romano Campidoglio con Scalinata che va’ alla Chiesa d’Araceli)
Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date Created: 1756
Set or Series Title: Views of Rome Drawn and Etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian Architect (Vedute di Roma disegnate ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Ve[nez]iano)
Print State: Third of six states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), before 1953
Materials & Techniques: Etching on laid paper
Keywords: architecture, churches, Italy, religions, religious buildings, Rome
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: First Paris edition of 1800–1807, issued by Francesco and Pietro Piranesi; loose sheet, not bound in volume
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 406 mm x 551 mm (15.98 in. x 21.69 in.).
Bibliography: 1792 cat. 75; Focillon 807; Hind 38; Wilton-Ely 147
Associated People: Created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)
Accession Number: 1973.D1.85