The Aqueduct of Nero Leading to the Palatine, 1775

Not on View

series Title

Views of Rome

Medium

etching on laid paper [proof]

Dimensions

plate: 49 x 70.8 cm (19 5/16 x 27 7/8 in.)

sheet: 55 x 80.6 cm (21 5/8 x 31 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 118, State unrecorded proof before letters

Accession Number

2004.114.3

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Provenance

(Craddock and Barnard, London, 1965); Wynne Jeudwine, London; Nathan Charken, Geneva; (sale, Sotheby's London, 11 July 1974, no. 100); returned to Nathan Charken, Geneva; (sale, Christie's London, 24 June 1986, no. 106); (R.M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara); Samuel Josefowitz, Geneva; (R. M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara); purchased by NGA, 2004.

Associated Names

Charken, Nathan
Charken, Nathan
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Craddock and Barnard
Jeudwine, Wynne Rice Hugh
Light, Robert M., Mr.
Private Collection c/o Josefowitz
Sotheby's, London
Stogdon, N.G.

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

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.