Prima Parte di Architetture, e Prospettive (First Edition, First Issue)

published 1743

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: title plate, dedication page, 12 plates, table of contents

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    accessory size: 47.6 x 36.6 cm (18 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1976.2.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robison 1986, no. 1, State -13, all state i

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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.

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.

1993

  • Denison, Cara D. Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries. Exh. cat. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Montréal. Cambridge, MA and London: 32 (fig.3,4), 71 (fig.1), 150 (fig.1), 154 (fig.4), 181 (fig.2), 188 (fig.2).

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 335; fig.6.12, 336.

Inscriptions

dated from imprint on table of contents; sheets are numbered sequentially in brown ink on the verso

Watermarks

Fleur-de-lis on plates (Robison 28)

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