Veduta della Basilica di San Lorenzo fuor delle mura
1760/1761
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 37.9 x 65.9 cm (14 15/16 x 25 15/16 in.)
sheet: 53 x 75.2 cm (20 7/8 x 29 5/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1985.61.12
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 12, State ii/v
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.
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.
Inscriptions
across bottom in plate: Veduta della Basilica di S. Lorenzo fuor delle mura / 1. Via Tiburtina / Presso l'autore, A paoli due e mezzo / Piranesi F.; by later hands, lower right in graphite: 12 / H/12 / F/730
Wikidata ID
Q74069690