Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Veduta di una parte de' fondamenti del Teatro di Marcello
Item Information
- Title:
- Veduta di una parte de' fondamenti del Teatro di Marcello
- Title (translated):
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View showing a part of the foundations of the Theater of Marcellus
- Title (alt.):
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XXXII. Veduta di una parte de' fondamenti del Teatro di Marcello
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. et scul.
- 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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Open-air theaters
Archaeological sites
Foundations
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Sant'Angelo (rione)
Teatro di Marcello
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate marks 60 x 40 cm and 5 x 40 cm, on sheet 88 x 61 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z0264
- 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: 500
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4, plate 32
- 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 margin: Tom IV XXXII
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.04
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol4_032
- Barcode:
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36666001163290
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