Prospettiva della Scala della conserva d'acqua de' già detti alloggiamenti, accennati in pianta nella Tav. XIII con la lett. G., 1764

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series Title

Antichità d'Albano e di Castel Gandolfo, plate XIV

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper [proof]

Dimensions

plate: 40.6 x 29.8 cm (16 x 11 3/4 in.)

sheet: 42.1 x 31 cm (16 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow

Catalogue Raisonné

Focillon 1918, no. 523, State undescribed proof

Accession Number

1999.124.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Probe- / druck? / K1258 / Opere Varie / Antichita di Roma

Provenance

(Karl und Faber, Munich, 13 May 1955, no. 324); Private Collection; P. & D. Colnaghi Co., Limited, London); Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston; gift to NGA in 1999.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Karl und Faber
Private Collection (Brush)
Vershbow, Arthur E., Mr.

Exhibition History

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, Washington, D.C., 104-105.

Bibliography

1918: Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

1994: Wilton-Ely, John. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the Complete Etchings. San Francisco, 1994.