Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Colonna Antonina
Item Information
- Title:
- Colonna Antonina
- Title (translated):
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Column of Marcus Aurelius
- Title (alt.):
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XIII. Fig. I. Colonna Antonina
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. inc.
- Date:
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1756
(created)
1835–1837 (issued)
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
- Series:
- Piranesi Volume 1: Piranesi Antichità Romane: Opera del Cavaliere > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1
- Subjects:
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Columns
Monuments & memorials
Archaeological sites
Plazas
Column of Marcus Aurelius (Rome, Italy)
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome
colonne de Marc-Aurèle
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 14 x 21 cm, on sheet 61 x 46 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86bz38z
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Language:
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Italian
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely I: 302
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1, plate 13, figure 1
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
- Notes (date):
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Dates supplied by cataloger from catalogue raisonné. Plates from this series originally created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1756. His son Francesco and his daughter Laura both worked with him and, after his death, maintained the original plates. The twenty-nine volumes in Boston Public Library’s Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection were assembled and published in Paris from 1835-1837.
- Notes (citation):
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Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume I." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Signature, lower left. Lettered with plate and figure information, plate upper margin: Tav. XIII, Fig. I. On same sheet as Wilton-Ely II: 303
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.01
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol01_013
- Barcode:
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36666004386328
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