Veduta delle due Chiese ... presso la Colonna a Trajana
1762
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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: 43 x 68.9 cm (16 15/16 x 27 1/8 in.)
sheet: 52.7 x 76.9 cm (20 3/4 x 30 1/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1985.61.69
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 66, State ii/iv
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: Veduta della due Chiesa, l'una detta della Madonna di Loreto l'altra del Nome di Maria / presso la Colonna Trajana. Salita al monte Quirinale / Piranesi F. / Si vense presso l'autore; by later hand, lower right in brown ink: 4; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 66
Wikidata ID
Q74070028