Piranesi Wrapping Paper

Piranesi Wrapping Paper
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Our unique wrapping paper packs were created exclusively for Sir John Soane’s Museum and contain 3 large sheets of wrapping paper and 6 x gift tags. The image is ‘Via Appia’ by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and dates from 1756.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi captured an imaginary Rome based on real architectural elements assembled in fantastical ways. This image is Piranesi's vision of the Via Appia, an important Roman road stretching across southern Italy and joining Rome with the Adriatic coast.

Just outside the city's ancient walls the road is lined with tombs, which the artist has rendered as elaborate architectural mountains

Piranesi created his images by etching with a sharp stylus on a waxed copper plate. After using the stylus to draw an image, the copper plate was set in an acid bath where the lines that Piranesi had drawn would be etched away. This method gives his prints a hand-drawn look
 
Weight 0.03 kgs
 
Price: £6.50
 
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