Veduta della facciata di dietro della Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

engraving and etching

Dimensions

sheet: 52.8 × 75.4 cm (20 13/16 × 29 11/16 in.)
plate: 40 × 61 cm (15 3/4 × 24 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ted Cooper

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 10, State undescribed

Accession Number

2012.95.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate [on base of obelisk]: [illegible]...DOMINUM / DICI / VETVIT / ADORO; left center in plate [on wall]: 4; center left in plate [left of dome]: 1; center right [next to dome] 2; ceter left in plate next to obelisk]: 3; bottom margin in plate, Veduta della Facciata di dietro della Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore / 1. Cappella di Sisto V. 2.Cappella di Paolo V. 3.Obelisco ritrovato fra le rovione del Mausoleo d'Augusto, e fatto quivi trasportare ed erigere da Sisto V. 4. Villa Montalto / Giov. Battista Piranesi Architetto dis. ed inc.; by artist, lower right, in pen and brown ink: a. III; by later hand, lower left, in graphite: A 10960 H10 I; by later hand, lower right, in graphite, 15; by later hand, verso upper right, in graphite: 2370A; by later hand, lower left verso, in graphite: A10960; by later hand, lower right, in graphite: AE4765

Provenance

Vincent Price, Los Angeles, until 1968 [according to label on back of frame]; Ted Cooper, Washington, DC; gift to NGA 2012.

Associated Names

Cooper, Ted

Bibliography

1918: Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918, no. 787.

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.