Demonstration panel showing technique for raising travertine and marble blocks for the construction of the tomb of Cecilia Metella, Rome, from the series 'Le Antichità Romane', Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1756

Print. Date: 1756. Dimensions: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 28 3/8 in. (52 x 72 cm); ; Plate: 18 5/16 x 20 3/8 in. (46.5 x 51.7 cm). Medium: etching print. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Demonstration panel showing technique for raising travertine and marble blocks for the construction of the tomb of Cecilia Metella, Rome, from the series 'Le Antichità Romane' MET DP831926