# The Tomb of the Istacidi, Pompeii [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Pencil, reed pen, black ink, 805 x 1123 mm ## Commentary The Tomb of the Istacidi, Pompeii c. 1777 Pencil, reed pen, black ink, 805 x 1123 mm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen During the 1770s Piranesi visited Pompeii on several occasions. A total of twelve Piranesi drawings showing various locations in Pompeii survive today. The scene depicted here is located close to the Herculaneum gates and can still be found today. Everything is, however, rather more modest in appearance than this drawing would indicate. ## Related artworks - [Carceri d'Invenzione]() - [Carceri d'Invenzione]() - [Diverse Maniere d'adornare i Cammini]() - [Exterior view]() - [Frontispiece]() - [Interior view]() - [Palazzo Barberini, Rome]() - [Porto di Ripetta]() - [Prisoners on a Projecting Platform]() - [Round Tower]() - [Ruins of the Antonine Baths]() - [Ruins of the Temple of Minerva]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()