Veduta dell' insigne Basilica Vaticana coll' ampio Portico, e Piazza adjacente
1775
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
1985.61.123
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 120, State i/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.
Associated Names
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
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
Wikidata ID
Q74070339