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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Round Tower, published 1749/1750

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series Title

Carceri (First Edition, First Issue)

Medium

etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing

Dimensions

plate: 55.6 x 41.8 cm (21 7/8 x 16 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

W.G. Russell Allen, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, and Pepita Milmore Funds

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 30, State i/vi

Accession Number

1976.35.2

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Provenance

Philip Hofer. Ferdinando Salamon, Milan. Armando Neerman.

Associated Names

Neerman, Armando, Mr.

Exhibition History

1994: The Glory of Venice, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 392, 393, 484, no. 276 (repro. p. 393)(entry by Olimpia Theodoli).

1996: Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art, Museo Nacional de Antropologîa, Mexico City, 1996-1997, pp. 130-131,

Bibliography

1918: Focillon 26.

1922: Hind 3.

1986: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

1994: The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: no. 276.

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