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Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore

1768

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Medium

etching on laid paper
Credit Line

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

plate: 43.2 x 68 cm (17 x 26 3/4 in.)
sheet: 52.9 x 76.6 cm (20 13/16 x 30 3/16 in.)
Accession

1985.61.90
Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 87, State i or ii/iv

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Artwork history & notes

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.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: Veduta interna della Basilica di / S. Maria Maggiore / Caval. Piranesi inc.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 87

Wikidata ID

Q74070149

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