Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Prospettiva della scala della conserva d'acqua de' già detti alloggiamenti, accennati in pianta nella Tav. XIII con la lett. G.
Prospettiva della scala della conserva dacqua de già detti alloggiamenti, accennati in pianta nella Tav. XIII con la lett. G.
Item Information
- Title:
- Prospettiva della scala della conserva d'acqua de' già detti alloggiamenti, accennati in pianta nella Tav. XIII con la lett. G.
- Title (translated):
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View of the stairs of the reservoir previously mentioned, marked in the plan on Plate XIII with the letter G.
- Title (alt.):
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XIV: Prospettiva della scala della conserva d'acqua de' già detti alloggiamenti, accennati in pianta nella Tav. XIII con la lett. G.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi F.
- Date:
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1764
(created)
1836 (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 11: Antichita D'Albano > Antichità di Albano e di Castel Gandolfo
- Subjects:
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Archaeological sites
Amphitheaters
Reservoirs
Stairways
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Albano Laziale
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Castel Gandolfo
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 41 x 30 cm, on sheet 61 x 45 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z111q
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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Parigi [Paris] :
Firmin-Didot
- 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 II: 656
Antichità di Albano e di Castel Gandolfo, plate 14
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
- Notes (date):
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Dates supplied by cataloger from material accompanying item and catalogue raisonné. Plates from this series originally created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1764. His son Francesco and his daughter Laura both worked with him and, after his death, maintained the original plates. The item in the Boston Public Library’s Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection were assembled and published in Paris in 1836.
- Notes (citation):
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Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume II." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Signature, lower right. Lettered with plate information, plate upper right: Tav. XIV
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.11
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol11_026
- Barcode:
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36666001163761
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