Veduta dell'interno dell' ... Colosseo, 1766

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 45.6 x 68.8 cm (17 15/16 x 27 1/16 in.)

sheet: 53.9 x 77.8 cm (21 1/4 x 30 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. 78, State iii/v

Accession Number

1985.61.81

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Veduta dell interno dell Anfiteatro Flavio / detto il colosseo; lower right in plate: Cavr. Piranesi fece.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 78

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.