Peintures de la Sala Borgia, au Vatican, de l'invention de Raphael; Peintures de la Villa Lante, à Rome, de l'invention de Jules Romain; Peintures de la Ville Altoviti; Peintures du Cabinet de Jules II, au Vatican, de l'invention de Raphael; Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni...Guercino
1764 (actually first Paris edition 1800-1810) [Piranesi] and 1803 [Piroli]
Artist, Italian, 1762 - 1841
Artist, Italian, c. 1635 - 1700
Author, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Author, Italian, c. 1752 - 1824
Artwork overview
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Medium
5 works bound in 1 vol: ill: 1st part: 12 plates (2 to a page), versos blank; 2nd part: 16 plates (2 to a page), versos blank; 3rd part: 13 plates (1 full-page, 6-2 to a page, 3-3 to a page), versos blank; 4th part: 19 plates (7 full-page, 12-2 to apage), versos blank); 5th part: title page and 46 plates (35 full-page, 6 double-page, 2-2 to a page, 4-4 to a page), versos blank
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 59.1 x 43 cm (23 1/4 x 16 15/16 in.)
overall size (volume closed): 62.1 x 47.2 x 3.7 cm (24 7/16 x 18 9/16 x 1 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1983.49.76
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Catalogue Raisonné
Focillon 1918, no. 983, State -986 (Piranesi)
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, nos.102,103