Sig. Nicola Zabbaglia

1764

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper [proof]

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Vincent J. Buonanno

  • 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

  • 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


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