G.B. Piranesi Print Catalogue Project
by Clare Hornsby and Caroline Barron
Over twenty years ago the 139 loose Piranesi prints in the BSR collection were restored and mounted and a basic descriptive list was made of them by Clare Hornsby. The digital catalogue presented here opens up study access to the etchings for the BSR community and the wider public, made available as part of the Digital Collections website. Each print has been researched by the curators and a full bibliographic record created by Beatrice Gelosia, Deputy Librarian. The etchings have been scanned to a very high quality, to accompany the catalogue text. This project is a collaboration between Clare Hornsby and Caroline Barron, Assistant Professor in Classics (Roman History) at Durham University.
Between 2021 and 2024, we have curated four annual exhibitions displaying a selection of the prints, to launch each year’s edition of the online catalogue. In 2023 BSR was very fortunate to receive a generous grant from the Tavolozza Foundation towards the publication of the completed catalogue of 105 prints in a fully illustrated printed book which is planned for 2025. We are very grateful to the Foundation for their support.
The project would have been impossible without the initial enthusiasm of Valerie Scott, BSR Librarian who retired in August 2021. Our particular thanks are due to Beatrice Gelosia who has worked side by side with the curators on the catalogue since that date; to Prof. Raphaële Mouren, Head of Research Collections and Prof. Abigail Brundin, Director of BSR and to all the staff who have helped us to make these exhibitions and catalogue a success.
G.B. Piranesi Print Catalogue Project
by Clare Hornsby and Caroline Barron
Camera sepolcrale inventata e disegnata conforme al costume, e all'antica magnificenza degl’Imperatori Romani (TA[PRI]-GBP11-080)
Over twenty years ago the 139 loose Piranesi prints in the BSR collection were restored and mounted and a basic descriptive list was made of them by Clare Hornsby. The digital catalogue presented here opens up study access to the etchings for the BSR community and the wider public, made available as part of the Digital Collections website. Each print has been researched by the curators and a full bibliographic record created by Beatrice Gelosia, Deputy Librarian. The etchings have been scanned to a very high quality, to accompany the catalogue text. This project is a collaboration between Clare Hornsby and Caroline Barron, Assistant Professor in Classics (Roman History) at Durham University.
Between 2021 and 2024, we have curated four annual exhibitions displaying a selection of the prints, to launch each year’s edition of the online catalogue. In 2023 BSR was very fortunate to receive a generous grant from the Tavolozza Foundation towards the publication of the completed catalogue of 105 prints in a fully illustrated printed book which is planned for 2025. We are very grateful to the Foundation for their support.
The project would have been impossible without the initial enthusiasm of Valerie Scott, BSR Librarian who retired in August 2021. Our particular thanks are due to Beatrice Gelosia who has worked side by side with the curators on the catalogue since that date; to Prof. Raphaële Mouren, Head of Research Collections and Prof. Abigail Brundin, Director of BSR and to all the staff who have helped us to make these exhibitions and catalogue a success.