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View through the Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. View through the Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii, 1778. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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View through the Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii

by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome)
Date: 1778
Medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk
Dimensions: 11 x 16 3/4 in. (28 x 42.5 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession no.: 1975.1.400

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