The So-Called Temple of Hercules at Cori, 1769

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Medium

etching on laid paper [unique proof]

Dimensions

plate: 38.7 x 52.9 cm (15 1/4 x 20 13/16 in.)

sheet: 52.8 x 75.4 cm (20 13/16 x 29 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 91, State unrecorded proof

Accession Number

2000.123.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

lower right in tablet in brown ink: Veduta del Tempio di Ercole nella Città di / Cora dieci miglia lontano da Velletri; lower right below image, in brown ink: G. Piranesi f.

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.