Teatrvm Marcelli

Teatrvm Marcelli

Item Information

Title:
Teatrvm Marcelli
Title (translated):
One of the fragments of the ancient plan of Rome, preserved on the Capitoline, which shows the plan of the stage building of the Theater of Marcellus.
Title (alt.):
XXVII. Uno de' frammenti dell'antica pianta di Roma conservati nel Campidoglio indicante la pianta della scena del Teatro di Marcello
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi Archit. dis. inc.
Date:
1756 (created)
1835–1837 (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
Series:
Piranesi Volume 4: Piranesi Antichita Romane 4 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4
Subjects:
Inscriptions
Open-air theaters
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Sant'Angelo (rione)
Teatro di Marcello
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 40 x 61 cm, on sheet 60 x 89 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z016w
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
Italian
Latin
Notes:
Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely I: 495
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4, plate 27.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
Notes (date):
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):
Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume I." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
Signature, lower right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom IV XXVII
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.04
Identifier:
19_04_vol4_027
Barcode:
36666001163241