A large marble vase on a porphyry pedestal. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.

[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [between 1768 and 1778]

1 print : etching ; platemark 53.5 x 39 cm

Al signor Guglielmo Vyse cavaliere inglese amatore e seguace belle arti in atto di amicizia il cavaliere Gio Batta Piranesi D.D.D. Altra veduta laterale del vaso, che si vede nella Villa dell'Eccma Casa Lanti. Il monumento A. su' cui qui posa il sudetto vaso si vede in casa del sig. Collino Morison pittore, ed antiquario inglese ... Cavalier Piranesi delin. ed inc.

John Ingamells, A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 compiled from the Brinsley Ford archive, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1997, p. 437 (William Guise), pp. 679-682 (Colin Morison, no mention of this base or of Piranesi)

Wellcome Collection 756431i

Dedicatee "Guglielmo Vyse": possibly Sir William Guise, 5th Baronet, of Elmore Court, Gloucestershire. He accompanied Edward Gibbon on their visit to Rome. His portrait was painted by Allan Ramsay in 1761 (A. Smart, Allan Ramsay, London 1999, no. 220; sold at Sotheby's, London, 2010(?))