Veduta degli avanzi del Foro di Nerva, 1756/1757

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 40.5 x 61.6 cm (15 15/16 x 24 1/4 in.)

sheet: 53 x 75.1 cm (20 7/8 x 29 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 42, State ii/vii

Accession Number

1985.61.43

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: ... / Veduta degli avanzi del Foro di Nerva / ... / Gio. Batt. Piranesi Archit. F. / 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: 41 / H/42 / F/749

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.