Veduta dell'Arco di Tito

Veduta dell'Arco di Tito

Item Information

Title:
Veduta dell'Arco di Tito
Title (translated):
View of the Arch of Titus
Title (alt.):
XXXIIII. Fig I. Veduta dell'Arco di Tito
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi Arch. 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
Arch of Titus (Rome, Italy)
Titus, Emperor of Rome, 40-81
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Campitelli (rione)
Arco di Tito
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 14 x 21 cm, on sheet 60 x 45 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c0169
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: 344
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1, plate 34, 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 center. Lettered with plate and figure information, plate upper left: Tav. XXXIIII Fig. I. On same sheet as Wilton-Ely II: 345/347
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.01
Identifier:
19_04_vol01_034
Barcode:
3666001165212