Antichità d'Albano e di Castel Gandolfo [The Antiquities of Albano and the Castle Gandolfo], 1764

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Medium

bound volume with half title, etched frontispiece and double-page dedication to Clement XIII, etched initial and vignette, 26 etched plates, 11 double-page and 1 folding

Dimensions

page size: 57.5 x 40 cm (22 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
book: 60 x 40 x 4 cm (23 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 1 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Focillon 1918, no. 505, State -536

Accession Number

2001.116.1.a

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Provenance

Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire (not in Lugt); (sale, Sotheby's London, 8 May 1986, no. 109); Adrian Eeles; (sale, Sotheby's London, 6 December 2000, no. 31); (David Tunick, Inc., New York); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

1918: Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

1967: Hind, Arthur. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. New York, 1967: 85-86.

1978: Wilton-Ely, John. The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. London, 1978: 71.