Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Pianta delle' stanze contigue alla camera sepolcrale de' liberti, e servi della famiglia di Augusto, scoperte l'anno 1727
Pianta delle stanze contigue alla camera sepolcrale de liberti, e servi della famiglia di Augusto, scoperte lanno 1727
Item Information
- Title:
- Pianta delle' stanze contigue alla camera sepolcrale de' liberti, e servi della famiglia di Augusto, scoperte l'anno 1727
- Title (translated):
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Plan of the room next to the tomb chambers of the freedmen and slaves of the family of Augustus, discovered in 1727
- Title (alt.):
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XXXVIII. Pianta delle' stanze contigue alla camera sepolcrale de' liberti, e servi della famiglia di Augusto, scoperte l'anno 1727
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- 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 33 x 21 cm and 4 x 21 cm, on sheet 61 x 44 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c246f
- 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: 453
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3, plate 38
- 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: XXXVIII Tom. III
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.03
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol03_038
- Barcode:
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3666001165717
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