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View of the Ruins of Paestum

1777/1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Medium

etching [proof before letters]
Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Dimensions

sheet: 49.8 x 70 cm (19 5/8 x 27 9/16 in.)
Accession

1974.121.2
Catalogue Raisonné

Focillon 1918, no. 591

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Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1918

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

Wikidata ID

Q65568909

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