Veduta di Piazza Navona sopra le rovine del Circo Agonale
probably 1747/1748
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 41 x 54.8 cm (16 1/8 x 21 9/16 in.)
sheet: 53 x 75.2 cm (20 7/8 x 29 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.16
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 16, State iv/vi
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 di Piazza Navona sopra le rovine del Cico Agonale / ... / Piranesi del.sc. / Presso l'autore a Strada Felice vicino all Trinità de' monti. A paoli due e mezzo.; by later hands, lower right in graphite: 15 / H.16 / F/806
Wikidata ID
Q74069704