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

1764

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Artwork overview

  • 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

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2001.116.1.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Focillon 1918, no. 505, State -536

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Associated Artworks

Descrizione e disegno dell'Emissario del Lago Albano [Description and Illustrations of the Outlet Tunnel at Lake Albano]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1720

Di Due Spelonche ornate dagli Antichi alla Riva del Lago Albano [Two Nymphaea of Ancient Design on the Shore of Lake Albano]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1720

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Watermarks

fleur-de-lys in double circle

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