Varie vedute di Roma antica e moderna disegnate e intagliate da celebri autori, published 1748

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Medium

1 vol: etched title page and 149 etchings (full-page, versos blank), 48 signed by Piranesi, artists include Niccolo Mogalli, Philothee-François Duflos, Jean-Laurent Legeay, Bellicard, P. Anesi, Jean Barbault, P.L. Magini

Dimensions

page size: 22.4 x 33.5 cm (8 13/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
overall size (volume closed): 22.3 x 33.8 x 3.9 cm (8 3/4 x 13 5/16 x 1 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Focillon 1918, no. 72, State -119

Accession Number

1984.8.5

Artists / Makers

Jean Barbault (artist) French, 1718 - 1762

Philothee-Francois Duflos (artist) French, c. 1710 - 1746

Jean-Laurent Legeay (artist) French, c. 1710 - after 1788

Various Artists (artist)

Niccolò Mogalli (artist) Italian, born 1723

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (author) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Image Use

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Inscription

in gold-tooled lettering on red leather label on spine: VIEWS OF ROME

Marks and Labels

inside front cover: Grantham bookplate

Provenance

Lord Grantham (bookplate); 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.

1996: Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 337; fig.6.14, 338.

2000: Pollak et al. 2000, no.84