Sig. Nicola Zabbaglia, 1764

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Medium

etching on laid paper [proof]

Dimensions

plate: 30.3 × 20 cm (11 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

sheet: 55.9 × 41.2 cm (22 × 16 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Vincent J. Buonanno

Catalogue Raisonné

Focillon 1918, no. 986

Accession Number

2017.26.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Pier Leone Ghezzi (artist after) Roman, 1674 - 1755

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Tunick, Inc., David

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