Veduta delle antiche Sostruzioni ... le Cloache fin al Tevere, 1776

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 45 x 76.2 cm (17 11/16 x 30 in.)

sheet: 52.5 x 76.5 cm (20 11/16 x 30 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 125, State i/iii

Accession Number

1985.61.128

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: VEDUTA delle antiche Sostruzioni fatte da Tarquinio Superbo...; lower right in plate: Cav. Piranesi F.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 125

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.