Della Magnificenza ed Architettura De'Romani / Osservazioni

plates for this copy printed and issued 1769/1770s; published: 1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Domenico Cunego

Artist, Italian, 1726 - 1803

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with two etched title plates, one engraved portrait by D. Cunego and Piranesi, plus forty etched plates, three initials and two tail-pieces, bound with Osservazioni containing nine etched plates, three head-pieces and three tail-pieces, all by Piranesi

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Vincent J. Buonanno

  • Dimensions

    book: 59.5 x 44.5 x 7.8 cm (23 7/16 x 17 1/2 x 3 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.134.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Focillon 1918, nos. 927-966 and 967-982

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ursus Rare Books, Ltd., New York); purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1918

  • Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris, 1918: nos. 927-966, 967-982.

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, 1922: 84-86.

1994

  • Wilton-Ely, John. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the Complete Etchings. San Francisco, 1994: nos. 753-798, 799-814.

Inscriptions

inside front cover in graphite by later hand: WJXX/

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