Title Plate

1780s

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite [date should be read as "published 1780s"]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.6988

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robison 1986, no. 29, State viii/ix

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1934

  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1934.

1956

  • Renaissance to Roccoco: A Loan Exhibition of Italian Engravings and Woodcuts, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1956, no cat.

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.

Watermarks

BRACCIANO (Robison 59)

Wikidata ID

Q65020174

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