Le Antichità Romane (volume I), published 1757

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series Title

(1 of 4 volumes, 1984.8.1-4)

Medium

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

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.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Focillon 1918, no. 144, State -223

Accession Number

1984.8.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Provenance

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

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

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