Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Pianta della camera sepolcrale de' Liberti e Servi della Famiglia di Augusto
Item Information
- Title:
- Pianta della camera sepolcrale de' Liberti e Servi della Famiglia di Augusto
- Title (translated):
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Plan of the tomb chamber of the freemen and slaves of the family of Augustus...
- Title (alt.):
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XXI. Pianta della camera sepolcrale de' Liberti e Servi della Famiglia di Augusto,,,
- Description:
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Plate by unidentified artist.
- Date:
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1756
(created)
1835–1837 (issued)
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Plans
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
- Series:
- Piranesi Volume 3: Piranesi Antichità Romane 3 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3
- 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 38 x 49 cm and 4 x 50 cm, on sheet 60 x 89 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c212m
- 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: Plate by unidentified artist, page 493
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3, plate 21
- 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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Unsigned. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom. III. XXI
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.03
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol03_021
- Barcode:
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3666001165543
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