Spaccato dell piramide di Cajo Cestio

Spaccato dell piramide di Cajo Cestio

Item Information

Title:
Spaccato dell piramide di Cajo Cestio
Title (translated):
Vertical section of the pyramid of Gaius Cestius
Title (alt.):
XLIV. Spaccato dell piramide di Caio Cestio
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc.
Date:
1756 (created)
1835–1837 (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Sections
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
Series:
Piranesi Volume 3: Piranesi Antichità Romane 3 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3
Subjects:
Archaeological sites
Pyramids
Pyramid of Cestius (Rome, Italy)
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Testaccio (rione)
Piramide di Caio Cestio
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate marks 33 x 24 cm and 10 x 24 cm, on sheet 61 x 45 cm
Permalink:
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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: 459
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3, plate 44
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. III. XLIV
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.03
Identifier:
19_04_vol03_044
Barcode:
3666001165774