ID: 700000623 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000623	Record Type: Movable Work

[Veduta della porta dell'antica città di Pompei] (etching (print); Francesco Piranesi (Italian architect and printmaker, ca. 17...; Published: ca. 1783; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 840287; accession number: 2009.PR.32**)

Note: "despres"--lower left corner; Watermark: Strasbourg Lily with JH & Z (Heawood 1860) and countermark J. HONIG & ZOONEN (Heawood 3345); A similar composition by Desprez was engraved by Guttenberg for Saint-Non's Voyage pittoresque, ou, Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile (II, p. 111). Cf. Wollin, p. 114; Inscriptions in second state: "Veduta della porta dell'antica ... Luigi Desprez delin. Ca. Franc.o Piranesi incise 1789". Publication: [ca. 1783].

Titles:

[Veduta della porta dell'antica città di Pompei] (preferred,C,U,RP,Italian-P,U,U)

View of the ancient gate, Porte d'Herculanum, at Pompeii (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Entrée de Pompéi (Porte d'Herculanum) (C,U,French,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

watercolor (painting) [300078925]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: ca. 1783

Creator Display:

Francesco Piranesi (Italian architect and printmaker, ca. 1756 -1810) [preferred,GRISC]

Piranesi, Francesco (Italian printmaker, architect, ca. 1756 -1810) [500018927]

publishers unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Desprez, Louis Jean (French painter, architect, and printmaker, 1743-1804) [500013852]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 840287; accession number: 2009.PR.32**

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, gouache, watercolor

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	gouache (paint) [300070114]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	watercolor (paint) [300015045]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

Dimensions: 48 x 69.5 cm

General Subject:

architecture (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	gates (barriers) [300002916]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, architectural elements, <openings and opening components>, openings (architectural elements), <openings by form>, <gateways and gateway components>, gateway components, <gates and gate components>) (AAT)

	Pompeii [7004658]
	.....() (TGN)

Provenance: rumbl; Purchase.

Marks: Watermark: Strasbourg Lily with JH & Z (Heawood 1860) and countermark J. HONIG & ZOONEN (Heawood 3345).

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
[Veduta della porta dell'antica città di Pompei]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 840287
View of the ancient gate, Porte d'Herculanum, at Pompeii	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Entrée de Pompéi (Porte d'Herculanum)	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Wollin 8 I/II

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)