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A work made of etching on heavy ivory laid paper.

Villa Pamphili outside Porta S. Pancrazio, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1776, published 1800–07

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Palette

Oyster
 24% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.5:1
Taupe
 21% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1
Iron
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1
Graphite
 14% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.6:1
Mushroom
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1
Warm grey
 8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
published by Francesco (Italian, 1758-1810) and Pietro Piranesi (Italian, born 1758/9)
Date
1776, published 1800–07
Type
Print
Medium
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
Size
Image: 49 × 70.3 cm (19 5/16 × 27 11/16 in.); Plate: 49.5 × 71 cm (19 1/2 × 28 in.); Sheet: 51.6 × 71.8 cm (20 3/8 × 28 5/16 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Themes
Cities and streets
Main colour
Grey · lightness 54, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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