Sepolcro di Cecilia Metella, 1762

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 45.9 x 64.2 cm (18 1/16 x 25 1/4 in.)

sheet: 54 x 77.7 cm (21 1/4 x 30 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. 67, State ii/v

Accession Number

1985.61.70

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Sepolcro di Cecilia Metella...; lower right in plate: Piranesi F.; by later hand, lower right in brown ink: n.6; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M. 67

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.