Veduta della Dogana di Terra

1751/1753

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, and drypoint on heavy laid paper [incorrect orientation of subject and caption plates]

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall (Subject pl): 40 x 60.5 cm (15 3/4 x 23 13/16 in.)
    overall (Caption pl): 4.7 x 60.7 cm (1 7/8 x 23 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 45.9 x 61.7 cm (18 1/16 x 24 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1987.28.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 1922, no. 32, State iii/vi (printed incorrectly)

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Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1918

  • Focillon 821.

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

in caption plate, upper right in plate: Piranesi Architetto fec.; in caption plate, across bottom in plate: Veduta della Dogana di Terra a Piazza di Pietra

Wikidata ID

Q74876043

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