Di due spelonche ornate dagli antichi alla riva del Lago Albano

Title:: Di due spelonche ornate dagli antichi alla riva del Lago Albano
Title (translated):: Concerning two caves embellished by the ancients on the bank of Lake Albano
Title (alt.):: Page 1. Vignette [head-piece]
Description:: Ram's head and sacrificial instruments.
Artist:: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:: Piranesi F.
Date:: 1762 (created)
1835–1837 (issued)
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Etchings
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
Series:: Piranesi Volume 11: Antichita D'Albano > Di due spelonche ornate dagli antichi alla riva del Lago Albano
Subjects:: Bas-reliefs
Sheep
Knives
Places:: Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Albano, Lago (lake)
Extent:: 1 print : etching ; plate mark 19 x 29 cm, on sheet 61 x 44 cm
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Language:: Italian
Notes:: Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné.
Wilton-Ely II: 625
Di due spelonche ornate dagli antichi alla riva del Lago Albano, page 5 head-piece
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 1762. 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 II." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
Notes (object):: Signature, lower left.
Accession #:: Tosti D.4 V.11
Identifier:: 19_04_vol11_057
Barcode:: 36666001164017