Dieta, o sia Luogo ... esistente nella Villa Adriana
1777
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: 44.1 x 57.4 cm (17 3/8 x 22 5/8 in.)
sheet: 53.9 x 77.4 cm (21 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.137
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 134, 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 center in plate: DIETA, o sia luogo, che da ingresso a diversi / grandiosi Cubicoli, e ad altre magnifiche Stanze, / esistente nella Villa Adriana, in oggi posseduta / dal Sig. Conte Fede. / Cav. Piranesi F.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 134
Wikidata ID
Q74070421