Modanature dell'architrave, fregio, e cornice, cosi grandi, come sono in opera

Title:: Modanature dell'architrave, fregio, e cornice, cosi grandi, come sono in opera
Title (alt.):: VI. Profiles of entablature, capital and base
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:: Entablatures
Capitals (Columns)
Columns
Places:: Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Albano, Lago (lake)
Extent:: 1 print : etching ; plate mark 38 x 61 cm, on sheet 61 x 90 cm
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Language:: Italian
Notes:: Title from item.
Alternative title from the catalogue raisonné.
Wilton-Ely II: 631
Di due spelonche ornate dagli antichi alla riva del Lago Albano, plate 6
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. Lettered with plate information, plate upper left: Tav. VI
Accession #:: Tosti D.4 V.11
Identifier:: 19_04_vol11_066
Barcode:: 36666001164074