Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Veduta del Ponte Ferrato dagl' antiquari detto Cestio
Item Information
- Title:
- Veduta del Ponte Ferrato dagl' antiquari detto Cestio
- Title (translated):
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View of the Ponte Ferrato, called the Bridge of Cestius by antiquarians...
- Title (alt.):
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XXI. Veduta del Ponte Ferrato dagl' antiquari detto Cestio...
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. ed. 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 4: Piranesi Antichita Romane 4 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4
- Subjects:
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Bridges
Archaeological sites
Rivers
Cities & towns
- Places:
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Italy > Tiber (river)
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome
Pons Cestius
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 40 x 61 cm, on sheet 61 x 91 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z0043
- 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: 489
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4, plate 21.
- 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 right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper right: Tom IV XXI
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.04
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol4_021
- Barcode:
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36666001160486
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