Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano
probably 1748/1749
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 41.1 x 60 cm (16 3/16 x 23 5/8 in.)
sheet: 53 x 75 cm (20 7/8 x 29 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.4
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 4, State iii/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.
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.
Inscriptions
across bottom in plate: Piranesi fecit / Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano / Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de' monti. A paoli due e mezzo.; by later hands, lower right in graphite: 4 / H/4 / F/788
Wikidata ID
Q74069640