View of the Arch built in honor of Augustus near the City of Aosta in Piedmont, Augusta Praetoria Salassorum in Antiquity. The inscribed fragment is from the attic story and is now built into the wall of the Capuchin Monastery, tavola 5 from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti analzati da Romani parte de quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian
After a design by Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet British
Not on view
Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury Hall, Warwickshire visited Rome during his second grand tour in 1775. During this trip, he gave Piranesi a drawing of the arch that he made the previous September. Piranesi based this plate upon Newdigate's drawing.