Veduta della fonte e delle Spelonche d'Egeri
1766
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: 40.6 x 69.1 cm (16 x 27 3/16 in.)
sheet: 52.5 x 76.8 cm (20 11/16 x 30 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.83
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 80, State i or 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
lower right in plate: Veduta della fonte e delle Spelonche d' / Egeria...; lower left in plate: Cavalier Piranesi F.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 80
Wikidata ID
Q74070107