Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Caeciliae Q Cretici f Metellae Crassi
Item Information
- Title:
- Caeciliae Q Cretici f Metellae Crassi
- Title (translated):
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Part of the façade of the tomb of Caecilia Metella with the ornaments which exist today
- Title (alt.):
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L. Parte della facciata dell sepolcro di Cecilia Metella co gli ornamenti, che in oggi esistono
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc.
- 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 3: Piranesi Antichità Romane 3 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3
- Subjects:
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Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Inscriptions
Tomb of Caecilia Metella (Rome, Italy)
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Appio Latino (quartiere)
Tomba di Cecilia Metella
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 43 x 62 cm, on sheet 61 x 90 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c268g
- 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: 465
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3, plate 50
- 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 right: Tom. III. L
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.03
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol03_050
- Barcode:
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3666001165832
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