Veduta della Villa ... Albani, 1769

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 44.3 x 69.8 cm (17 7/16 x 27 1/2 in.)

sheet: 52.7 x 76.8 cm (20 3/4 x 30 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 89, State i/iii

Accession Number

1985.61.92

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Veduta della Villa dell' Emo Sign. Card / Alesandro Albani fuori di Porta Salaria; lower left in plate: Cavalier Piranesi inc.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 89

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

Exhibition History

1990: Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 69, repro.

2000: "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century", Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 25.

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.