Title Plate, published 1750/1758

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series Title

Carceri (First Edition, Second Issue)

Medium

etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite

Dimensions

plate: 54 x 41.3 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.)

sheet: 59.6 x 45.6 cm (23 7/16 x 17 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 29, State ii/ix

Accession Number

1946.21.389

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Image Use

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Provenance

one of set of 13 prints (NGA 1946.21.389-401) purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia, from William H. Schab, 4 October 1946 (JYAE; 46.193); gift to NGA, 1946.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Schab Gallery, Inc., William H.

Bibliography

1918: Focillon 24.

1922: Hind 1.

1986: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

1996: Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, 1996: 130-133. (note: identified incorrectly as La torre redonda 1976.35.2).