Veduta del Tempio della Sibilla in Tivoli, 1761

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Medium

engraving on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 42.6 x 63.9 cm (16 3/4 x 25 3/16 in.)

sheet: 51.8 x 73.3 cm (20 3/8 x 28 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Al and Lotte Blaustein

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 61, State unrecorded early state (before i/v)

Accession Number

1998.45.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: ... / Veduta del tempio della Sibilla in Tivoli / ... Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de monti. A paoli due e mezzo.; lower right in plate: Piranesi Fec.

Provenance

Al and Lotte Blaustein, New York; gift to NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Blaustein, Lotte

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.