Rovine d'una Galleria di Statue nella Villa Adriana a Tivoli, 1770

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 45.4 x 57.8 cm (17 7/8 x 22 3/4 in.)

sheet: 51.3 x 65.2 cm (20 3/16 x 25 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 93

Accession Number

2000.7.34

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

lower right in image: Rovine d'una Galleria / di Statue nella Villa Adri= / ana a Tivoli / A. Avanzi di pitture a grottesco; lower left in plate below image: Cavalier Piranesi del e inc.

Provenance

Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, Washington D.C.; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Smyth-Ravenel Fund, Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P.

Exhibition History

2000: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

Bibliography

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

1922: Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome. London: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.