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Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzo

1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Medium

etching on 3 sheet of joined laid paper
Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, acquired with assistance from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
Dimensions

plate: 120.1 x 70 cm (47 5/16 x 27 9/16 in.)
sheet: 125.4 x 73.6 cm (49 3/8 x 29 in.)
Accession

1985.61.65
Catalogue Raisonné

Focillon 1918, no. 600

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

Bibliography

1918

Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

Inscriptions

upper center in plate: PIANTA DI ROMA / E DEL CAMPO MARZO...; extensive notations overall

Wikidata ID

Q74069984

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