Le Antichità Romane (volume I)

published 1757

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: very early issue, datable 1757, containing first printing of "Lettere di Giustificazione" (2 letters only); ill: 72 etchings including frontispiece

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • Dimensions

    page size: 55 x 42 cm (21 5/8 x 16 9/16 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 57.5 x 44.2 cm (22 5/8 x 17 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.8.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Focillon 1918, no. 144, State -223

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1984.

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, no.88

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