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A. Mura con barbacani che investono le falde del Quirinale...

A. Mura con barbacani che investono le falde del Quirinale...

Item Information

Title:
A. Mura con barbacani che investono le falde del Quirinale...
Title (translated):
A. Wall with buttresses which encloses the slopes of the Quirinal...
Title (alt.):
XVI. Fig. I. A. Mura con barbacani che investono le falde del Quirinale...
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi Archit. dis. inc.
Date:
1756 (created)
1835–1837 (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
Series:
Piranesi Volume 1: Piranesi Antichità Romane: Opera del Cavaliere > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1
Subjects:
Walls
Buttresses
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Quirinale (hill)
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 14 x 27 cm, on sheet 60 x 45 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86bz49g
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
Italian
Notes:
Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely I: 308
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1, plate 16, figure 1
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
Notes (date):
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):
Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume I." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
Signature, lower right. Lettered with plate and figure information, plate upper margin: Tav. XVI, Fig. I. On same sheet as Wilton-Ely II: 309
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.01
Identifier:
19_04_vol01_016
Barcode:
36666004386351