Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Vedvta del Ponte Fabrizio oggi detto quattro Capi
Item Information
- Title:
- Vedvta del Ponte Fabrizio oggi detto quattro Capi
- Title (translated):
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View of the Bridge of Fabricius, today called the Ponte dei Quattro Capi [Bridge of the Four Heads]...
- Title (alt.):
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XVI. Veduta del Ponte Fabrizio oggi detto quattro Capi...
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi dis. scol
- 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 4: Piranesi Antichita Romane 4 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4
- Subjects:
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Bridges
Archaeological sites
Rivers
- Places:
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Italy > Tiber (river)
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome
Pons Fabricius
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 40 x 61 cm, on sheet 61 x 89 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68xz94w
- 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: 484
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4, plate 16.
- 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 left. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper left: XVI Tom IV
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.04
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol4_016
- Barcode:
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36666001160437
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