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La Topografia di Roma

1748

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Carlo Nolli

Artist, Italian, died 1770 or after

Medium

engraving (map) and etching (illustrated border) on laid paper
Credit Line

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

plate: 46.8 x 68.6 cm (18 7/16 x 27 in.)
sheet: 48.3 x 72 cm (19 x 28 3/8 in.)
Accession

1985.61.140
Catalogue Raisonné

Focillon 1918, no. 40

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Artwork history & notes

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.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: LA TOPOGRAFIA / DI ROMA / DI GIO. BATTA NOLLI / ... / Piranesi / e Nolli / incifeo

Wikidata ID

Q74070434

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