Sig. Nicola Zabbaglia
1764
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper [proof]
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 30.3 × 20 cm (11 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
sheet: 55.9 × 41.2 cm (22 × 16 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2017.26.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Focillon 1918, no. 986
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Unidentified private collector (illegible collector's mark). Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt, Rome [1885 - 1971] (not in Lugt). (David Tunick, New York); purchased 2017 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1918
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918: no. 986.
1994
Wilton-Ely, John. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the Complete Etchings. San Francisco, 1994: no. 1018, undesc proof
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: Eq. Petr. Leo Ghezzinus; lower center in plate: Sig.re Nicola Zabbagia Ingegnere della Reverenda / Fabbrica di S. Pietro; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Focillon / 986; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: N. 7; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: DTAMLAL
Watermarks
fleur-de-lys in a double circle with CB (Robison 39)
Wikidata ID
Q77259170