Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Pianta, e spaccato delle tre sale sepolcrali, credute della Famiglia di Augusto
Item Information
- Title:
- Pianta, e spaccato delle tre sale sepolcrali, credute della Famiglia di Augusto
- Title (translated):
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Plan and section of the three large tomb chambers thought to belong to the Household of Augustus
- Title (alt.):
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XL. Pianta, e spaccato delle tre sale sepolcrali, credute della Famiglia di Augusto
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Architetto del. ed inc.
- Date:
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1756
(created)
1835–1837 (issued)
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Plans
Sections
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
- Series:
- Piranesi Volume 2: Piranesi Antichità Romane 2 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2
- Subjects:
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Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Appio Latino (quartiere)
Hostaria Antica Roma, Rome, Italy
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate marks 40 x 49 cm and 5 x 49 cm, on sheet 60 x 90 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c129k
- 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: 397
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 40
- 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 right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom. II. XL
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.02
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol02_040
- Barcode:
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3666001164868
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