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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Prima Parte di Architetture, e Prospettive (First Edition, Third Issue), dated 1743 but printed 1747

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Medium

1 vol: title plate (Robison 1, state iii), dedication page (reset text w/ initial "S" (Robison 14), 14 plates (R.2-3, 5-12 state ii; R.14-18 state i)

Dimensions

page size: 49 x 35 cm (19 5/16 x 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 1, State -3, 5-12, 14-18

Accession Number

1978.3.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Provenance

(Reiss & Auvermann, Glasbutten im Taunus); acquired 1978 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Reiss & Auvermann

Exhibition History

1994: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 380, 482, no. 264 (repro. p. 380)(entry by Olimpia Theodoli).

Bibliography

1918: Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

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. 264.

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