ID: 700000624 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000624	Record Type: Movable Work

[Veduta del sepolcro di Mamia negl'avanzi 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, ...; 840288; accession number: 2009.PR.33**)

Note: "despres"--lower left corner; A similar composition by Desprez was engraved by Pâris for Saint-Non's Voyage pittoresque, ou, Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile (II, no. 81). Cf. Wollin, p. 105 and Piranèse et les Français, p. 126; Watermark: Strasbourg Lily with JH & Z (Heawood 1860) and countermark J. HONIG & ZOONEN (Heawood 3345); Inscriptions in second state: "Veduta del sepolcro di Mamia ... Luigi Desprez delin. Ca. Franc.o Piranesi incese 1789."; The watercolor over an etched outline shows the tomb of the priestess Mamia and the family sepulchre of the Istacidii on the Via dei Sepolcri outside of Pompeii. Publication: [ca. 1783].

Titles:

[Veduta del sepolcro di Mamia negl'avanzi dell'antica città di Pompei] (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,U,U)

Tombs of the priestess Mamia and Istacidii family on the Via dei Sepolcri at Pompeii (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Tomb of the Istacidii (C,U,undetermined,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)

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: 840288; accession number: 2009.PR.33**

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, watercolor

	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)

	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)

Dimensions: 48 x 70 cm

General Subject:

structures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	tombs [300005926]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, ceremonial structures, funerary structures) (AAT)

	Pompeii [7004658]
	.....(Napoli province (province), Campania (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

Provenance: rumbl; Purchase.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
[Veduta del sepolcro di Mamia negl'avanzi dell'antica città di Pompei]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 840288
Tombs of the priestess Mamia and Istacidii family on the Via dei Sepolcri at Pompeii	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Tomb of the Istacidii	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Wollin 9 I/II

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