In 2019, Dr Clare Hornsby, an art historian specialising in 18th century architecture and the Grand Tour and a long-standing Research Fellow at the BSR, embarked on a close examination of some of the Piranesi holdings in the library, guided by the former librarian Valerie Scott. The first result of her work was the Campo Marzio project; a page by page digitisation of the volume was undertaken and a research essay written. This was one of the first research projects to be hosted on the BSR Digital Collection website. This was followed in 2020 by an initiative to create an online catalogue of the loose prints by Piranesi. Clare Hornsby invited a former BSR award holder, Dr Caroline Barron, to collaborate on the research and writing for this catalogue and the curation of four annual displays of the prints. These two completed projects by no means exhaust the research possibilities of the Piranesi holdings in the Library; it is hoped that further work on other volumes and the remaining prints, most of them by Francesco Piranesi, will be undertaken in the future.

G.B. PIRANESI PRINT CATALOGUE PROJECT 

G.B. PIRANESI, IL CAMPO MARZIO DELL’ANTICA ROMA