Veduta della gran Piazza e Basilica di S. Pietro
1772
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: 46.3 x 70.6 cm (18 1/4 x 27 13/16 in.)
sheet: 53 x 76.5 cm (20 7/8 x 30 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.104
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 101, State i/iii
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 gran Piazza e Basilica di S. Pietro / situata ove erano anticamente il Circo e gl' Orti / Cajo e Nerone nelle Valle Vaticana. / Cav. Piranesi F.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 101
Wikidata ID
Q74070234