Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Framm.ti della camera sepolcrale dirimpetto alla Chiesa di S. Sebast.no fuori delle Mura
Item Information
- Title:
- Framm.ti della camera sepolcrale dirimpetto alla Chiesa di S. Sebast.no fuori delle Mura
- Title (translated):
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Fragments from the tomb chamber opposite the Church of San Sebastiano fuori delle Mura [St. Sebastian outside the Walls]
- Title (alt.):
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XLVI. Framm.ti della camera sepolcrale dirimpetto alla Chiesa di S. Sebast.no fuor delle Mura
- Description:
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Figures by J. Barbault.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc. Barbault scolpi le figure
- Date:
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1756
(created)
1835–1837 (issued)
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
- 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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Inscriptions
Architectural decorations & ornaments
Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Basilica di S. Sebastiano (Rome, Italy)
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Ardeatino (quartiere)
Catacombe di San Sebastiano
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate marks 40 x 48 cm and 5 x 48 cm, on sheet 61 x 89 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c141v
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Language:
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Italian
Latin
- 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: 403
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 46
- 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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Signatures, Piranesi lower left, Barbault lower right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom. II. XLVI
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.02
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol02_046
- Barcode:
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3666001164926
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