Veduta degli avanzi di alcune camere sepolcrali, esistenti sull'antica Via Appia fuori di Porta S. Sebastiano

Title:: Veduta degli avanzi di alcune camere sepolcrali, esistenti sull'antica Via Appia fuori di Porta S. Sebastiano
Title (translated):: View of the remains of several tomb chambers on the ancient Appian way outside Porta San Sebastiano
Title (alt.):: XLVII. Veduta degli avanzi di alcune camere sepolcrali, esistenti sull'antica Via Appia fuori di Porta S. Sebastiano
Artist:: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:: Piranesi Architetto dis. ed 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 2: Piranesi Antichità Romane 2 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2
Subjects:: Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Places:: Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Celio (rione)
Porta San Sebastiano
Extent:: 1 print : etching ; plate mark 40 x 62 cm, on sheet 61 x 89 cm
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Language:: Italian
Notes:: Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely I: 404
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 47
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. II. XLVII
Accession #:: Tosti D.4 V.02
Identifier:: 19_04_vol02_047
Barcode:: 3666001164934