Veduta della Basilica di Sta. Maria Maggiore, probably 1747/1748

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 39.9 x 54.2 cm (15 11/16 x 21 5/16 in.)

sheet: 53 x 75.2 cm (20 7/8 x 29 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, acquired with assistance from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 9, State iii/vi

Accession Number

1985.61.9

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: Veduta della Basilica di Sta. Maria Maggiore con le due Fabbriche laterali di detta Basilica / ... / Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de' monti. A paoli due e mezzo. Piranesi del. scol.; by later hands, lower right in graphite: 9 / H/9 / F/791

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.

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.