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Currently not on display

Francesco Piranesi

Roma, c. 1758/59 - Paris, 1810

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Venice, 1720 - Roma, 1778

<Different Views of some of the remains of three great edifices of the ancient city of Pesto>: (13) [A] [B] Interior view of the remains of one of the pronaoi of the Temple of Neptune...

Date 1778
Materials and Techniques etching and engraving on laid paper
Watermarks Robison 64 and Robison 59
Size(cm) 49.5 x 67.0
Inscriptions Signed lower right, on the scroll: Cav. Piranesi F.
Standard ref. Focillon 595; Hind pp. 19, 87; Wilton-Ely 730
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1998-0034

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 1998.

Bibliography

1911
Giesecke, Albert. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1911 (Meister der Graphik, 6), p. 120.
1922
Hind, Arthur Mayger. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: A Critical Study with a List of His Published Works and Detailed Catalogue of the Prisons and the Views of Rome. London, 1922 (rep. ed. London, Holland, 1978), pp. 19, 87.
1967
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi. Calvesi, Maurizio; Monferini, Augusta, eds. Guglielmi, Giuseppe, trans. Bologna, Alfa, 1967, p. 322-324.
1968
Pevsner, Nikolaus. "The Doric Revival". Studies in Art, Architecture and Design. vol.1, London, Thames & Hudson, 1968, pp. 197-211.
1972
McCarthy, Michael. Documents of the Greek revival in architecture. Burlington Magazine. Vol. 114, November 1972, pp. 760-768.
1975
Scott, Jonathan. Piranesi. London, Academy Editions, 1975, pp. 251-253, 318-319 (n. 29).
1978
Wilton-Ely, John. The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. London, Thames and Hudson, 1978, pp. 117-119.
1978
Wilton-Ely, John. Piranesi: catalogue (exh. cat.). London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978, pp. 123-124.
1978
Pane, Roberto. "Diffrentes vues de...Pesto". Piranesi: Incisioni, rami, legature, architetture (exh. cat.). Bettagno, Alessandro, ed. Fondazione Giorgio Cini Centro di cultura e civiltà Instituto di Storia dell'Arte, Venezia, Vicenza, Neri Pozza Editore, 1978, pp. 69-71.
1983
Cavicchi, Adriano; Zamboni, Silla. "Due taccuini inediti di Piranesi". Piranesi tra Venezia e l'Europa. Bettagno, Alessandro, ed. Venezia, 13 - 15 October 1978, Istituto di Storia dell'Arte della Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Florence, Olschki, 1983, pp. 177-216.
1986
Robison, Andrew. "Watermarks". Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies, a Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings. Washington D. C., 1986, pp. 215-239.
2000
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 33 (April 1998-March 1999), 2000, List of New Acquisitions. pp. 45-46.

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