Colonna Trajana

Colonna Trajana

Item Information

Title:
Colonna Trajana
Title (translated):
Trajan's Column
Title (alt.):
XXIX. Fig. II. Colonna Trajana
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi Architett 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:
Archaeological sites
Columns
Catholic churches
Monuments & memorials
Trajan's Column (Rome, Italy)
Trajan, Emperor of Rome, 53-117
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Trevi (rione)
Columna Traiana
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 14 x 20 cm, on sheet 60 x 45 cm
Permalink:
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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: 335
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1, plate 29, figure 2
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 figure information, plate upper left: Fig. II. On same sheet as Wilton-Ely II: 334
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.01
Identifier:
19_04_vol01_029a
Barcode:
3666001165162