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Grotteschi (cover label "Caprices")

1747-1749 (actually first Paris edition 1800-1807)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Author, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (author)

Medium

1 vol: ill:
Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, David K.E. Bruce Fund
Accession Number

1985.61.2617
Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 21, State -24

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

Bibliography

1918

Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

1922

Hind 1922, p. 78-9.

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.

2000

Pollak et al. 2000, no. 81

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