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

dated 1743 but printed 1747

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: title plate (Robison 1, state iii), dedication page (reset text w/ initial "S" (Robison 14), 14 plates (R.2-3, 5-12 state ii; R.14-18 state i)

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    page size: 49 x 35 cm (19 5/16 x 13 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.3.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robison 1986, no. 1, State -3, 5-12, 14-18

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Reiss & Auvermann, Glasbutten im Taunus); acquired 1978 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 380, 482, no. 264 (repro. p. 380)(entry by Olimpia Theodoli).

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.

1994

  • The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: no. 264.

Watermarks

initial Z, bow/arrow (Venetian paper, Robison 47 & 49)

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