Della Magnificenza ed Architettura de'Romani Opera; Osservazioni
published 1761
Author, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
2 works bound in 1 vol: ill: 1st part: 2 etched title pages, 1 portrait dedication, and 40 etchings (25 full-page, 8 double-page, 4 folding (each 2 prints pasted together), 3 small plates on 1 page, versos blank); 2nd part: 1 title page, 9 etchings (3full-page, 6 double-page, versos blank) plus vignettes, head- and tail-pieces
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 53.8 x 39.2 cm (21 3/16 x 15 7/16 in.)
overall size (volume closed): 55 x 41.4 x 6 cm (21 5/8 x 16 5/16 x 2 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1983.49.73
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Catalogue Raisonné
Focillon 1918, no. 927, State -966; 967, 968
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Charles Edouard Mewes (bookplate); Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1983.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1918
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.
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: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.
2000
Pollak et al. 2000, no.99