Lapides Capitolini; Antichità di Cora; Le Rovine del Castello dell'Acqua Giulia

published 1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Author, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    3 works bound in 1 vol: ill: 1st part: etched title page and dedication page plus 1 folding plate (2 plates pasted together), versos blank; 2nd part; etched half-title page, plus 10 etchings (2 full-page, 6 double-page, 1 folding (2 plates pastedtogether), versos blank); 3rd part: etched title page plus 20 etchings (2 pages contain two plates each, rest full-page, versos blank) …

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • Dimensions

    page size: 54.2 x 41.4 cm (21 5/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 55.3 x 43.3 x 4.3 cm (21 3/4 x 17 1/16 x 1 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.49.74

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Focillon 1918, no. 421, State -427; 537-550; 396-420


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Edouard Mewes (bookplate); Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1983.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1918

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

1922

  • Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome. London: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.

2000

  • Pollak et al. 2000, nos.89,90,95


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