Veduta dell' insigne Basilica Vaticana coll' ampio Portico, e Piazza adjacente, 1775

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 47.7 x 71.3 cm (18 3/4 x 28 1/16 in.)

sheet: 53 x 75.9 cm (20 7/8 x 29 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 120, State i/iii

Accession Number

1985.61.123

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: ... Veduta dell'insigne Basilica Vaticana coll'ampio Portico, e Piazza adjacente...; lower right in plate: Cavaliere Piranesi delin. ed inc.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 120

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.