Title Plate

published 1749/1750

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite

  • Credit Line

    Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 54.8 x 41.4 cm (21 9/16 x 16 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1941.1.203

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robison 1986, no. 29, State i/ix

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1996

  • Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, pp. 130-131, repro. p. 132.

2001

  • The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001.

2004

  • The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York, 2004.

Bibliography

1918

  • Focillon 24.

1922

  • Hind 1.

1986

  • Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

1996

  • Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, 1996: 130-133.

Wikidata ID

Q64956986

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