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Inscription

lower left in plate: Piranesi invento', ed incise; lower right in plate: Ap.o Piranesi dirempetto l'Accademia di Francia in Roma

Marks and Labels

Robison 48 & 50)

Provenance

Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; (sold, Christie's, London, 5 December 1985); (David Tunick, Inc., New York); acquired 1986 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

1994
The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 385, 387, 483, no. 271 (repro. p. 387)(entry by Olimpia Theodoli).
2001
The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001.

Bibliography

1918
Focillon 22.
1922
Hind p.80, no.26.
1959
Christie's, CHATSWORTH, 12/5/85, 166.
1978
Robison 1978, 13.
1986
Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.
1994
The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: no. 271.

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