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Veduta del Palazzo Farnese

1773

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Medium

etching on laid paper
Credit Line

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

plate: 41.8 x 65.5 cm (16 7/16 x 25 13/16 in.)
sheet: 52.7 x 76.5 cm (20 3/4 x 30 1/8 in.)
Accession

1985.61.110
Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 107, State i/iii

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

Bibliography

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 left in plate: Veduta del Palazzo / Farnese; lower left in plate: Cavalier Piranesi F.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 107

Wikidata ID

Q74070261

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