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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Round Tower, 1780s

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series Title

Carceri (Third Edition ?)

Medium

etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing [date should be read as "published 1780s"]

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 30, State v/vi

Accession Number

1943.3.6989

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Exhibition History

1934: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1934.

1950: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, circulated by the American Federation of Arts to 11 venues (California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI; The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; Museum of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN; and Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN), 1950-1952, no cat.

1961: Piranesi Prints, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1961.

Bibliography

1918: Focillon 26.

1922: Hind 3.

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.

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