Rovine d'una Galleria di Statue nella Villa Adriana a Tivoli, 1770

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 45.7 x 58 cm (18 x 22 13/16 in.)

sheet: 53.9 x 77.4 cm (21 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 93, State i/iii

Accession Number

1985.61.96

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Rovine d'una Galleria / di Statue nella Villa Adri- / ana a Tivoli...; lower left in plate: Cavalier Piranesi del. e inc.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 93

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

Exhibition History

2000: "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century", Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 432.

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.