Veduta interna della Villa di Mecenate

1764

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

  • Dimensions

    plate: 47.7 x 62.7 cm (18 3/4 x 24 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 59.3 x 84.8 cm (23 3/8 x 33 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.117.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 1922, no. 73, State ii/iv

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Artwork history & notes

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: Piranesi F.; lower left in plate: Veduta interna della Villa di / Mecenate,Dall'iscriz.e L.OCTAVIVS.L.F.VITVLVS / [continues with 13 lines of inscription]; by later hand, lL //in graphite: H.73 II; by later hand, lL //in graphite: 52663

Wikidata ID

Q74893882

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