Colonna Antonina
probably 1748/1749
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: 54.7 x 40.2 cm (21 9/16 x 15 13/16 in.)
sheet: 75 x 53 cm (29 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.53
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 52, State iii/vii
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: ... / Colonna Antonina / ... / Piranesi fecit / Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de'monti. A paoli due e mezzo.; by later hands, lower left in graphite: 51 / H52 / F/799
Wikidata ID
Q74069926