Arco di Severo, e Caracalla

Arco di Severo, e Caracalla

Item Information

Title:
Arco di Severo, e Caracalla
Title (translated):
The Arch of Septimius Severus
Title (alt.):
XXXI. Fig II. Arco di Severo, e Caracalla
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi Architetto 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
Memorial arches
Severus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome, 146-211
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Campitelli (rione)
Arco di Severo
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 12 x 27 cm, on sheet 60 x 45 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c0062
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
Italian
Latin
Notes:
Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely I: 339
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1, plate 31, 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 right: Fig. II. On same sheet as Wilton-Ely II: 338
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.01
Identifier:
19_04_vol01_031a
Barcode:
3666001165188