Le antichità romane
Le antichità romane is a 1784 Roman publication of engraved architectural plates by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and his son Francesco, issued in Rome by the Salomoni press for antiquarians and students of architecture. The pictures are etchings of ruined Roman masonry, tombs, and tower fragments, with dense hatching and plan drawings that show construction, decay, and surface texture a designer could borrow for stone, weathering, or classical ruin motifs.
