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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Le Antichità Romane (volume IV), published 1757

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series Title

(1 of 4 volumes, 1984.8.1-4)

Medium

1 vol: very early issue, datable 1757; ill: 56 etchings including frontispiece

Dimensions

page size: 55 x 42 cm (21 5/8 x 16 9/16 in.)
overall size (volume closed): 57.5 x 44.2 cm (22 5/8 x 17 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Focillon 1918, no. 337, State -395

Accession Number

1984.8.4

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

Exhibition History

1994: The Glory of Venice, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 395, 396, 484, no. 278 (repro. p. 395)(entry by Olimpia Theodoli).

Bibliography

1918: Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

1922: Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome. London: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.

2000: Pollak et al. 2000, no.88

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