Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Framm.ti di marmo della pianta di Roma antica scavati saranno due secoli, nelle rovine del Tempio di Romolo, et ora esistenti nel Museo di Campidoglio
Framm.ti di marmo della pianta di Roma antica scavati saranno due secoli, nelle rovine del Tempio di Romolo, et ora esistenti nel Museo di Campidoglio
Item Information
- Title:
- Framm.ti di marmo della pianta di Roma antica scavati saranno due secoli, nelle rovine del Tempio di Romolo, et ora esistenti nel Museo di Campidoglio
- Title (translated):
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Fragments of the marble plan of ancient Rome...
- Title (alt.):
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III. Framm.ti di marmo della pianta di Roma antica...
- Description:
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From the Severan marble plan.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. et inc.
- 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 1: Piranesi Antichità Romane: Opera del Cavaliere > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1
- Subjects:
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Plans
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 47 x 38 cm, on sheet 89 x 61 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86bz09h
- Terms of Use:
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No Copyright - United States
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: 289
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1, plate 3
- 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 margin: Tom I, III
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.01
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol01_003
- Barcode:
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36666004386229
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