Arco di Settimio Severo
probably 1749/1750
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: 37.8 x 58.5 cm (14 7/8 x 23 1/16 in.)
sheet: 53 x 75 cm (20 7/8 x 29 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.55
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 54, State ii/v
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: ... / Arco di Settimio Severo / ... / Piranesi Architetto fec. / ... / 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: 53 / H54 / F/809
Wikidata ID
Q74069932