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]

Francesco Rosaspina

Artist, Italian, 1762 - 1841

Pietro Santo Bartoli

Artist, Italian, c. 1635 - 1700

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Author, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Tommaso Piroli

Author, Italian, c. 1752 - 1824

Artwork overview

  • 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

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • 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

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Focillon 1918, no. 983, State -986 (Piranesi)

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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


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