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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Venice, 1720 - Roma, 1778

Date	ca. 1758-1760; first published in ca. 1749-1750
Materials and Techniques	etching and engraving on thick laid paper
Size（cm）	56.1 x 41.1 (plate); 51.7 x 73.2 (paper)
State	1st edition, 3rd issue (ca. 1758-1760) (Robison); Published by Giovanni Bouchard, Rome
Inscriptions	Signed at bottom left: Piranesi f.
Standard ref.	Focillon 32; Hind 9 (1/3); Robison 35 (3/6); Wilton-Ely 34.
Category	Prints
Collection Number	G.1984-0007

Mary Stansbury Ruiz; George Vanderbilt; Galleria Grafica, Tokyo; Purchased by the NMWA, 1984.

1987: “Fantasy” in European Prints, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 6 August 1987 - 6 September 1987, cat. no. 3 First Edition (9)
1989: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 21 May 1989 - 25 June 1989, cat. no. 39-1
1996: Archaeology of the Future City, Hiroshima Museum of Art, 25 September 1996 - 4 November 1996, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, 12 November - 22 December 1996, cat. no. C-18, repr.

1918: Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisonné de son œuvre. Paris, 1918, pp. 12-14.
1922: Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: A Critical Study. 1922, (reprint ed., London, 1978), pp. 24-29.
1976: Salamon, Teresa Villa. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Grafica, Ⅱ-2. Calcografia Nationale, Roma, 1976, pp. 29-41.
1986: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi, Early Architectural Fantasies, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings. Washington D. C./Chicago, 1986, pp. 139-210.
1987: "Fantasy" in European Prints (exh. cat.). Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, ed. Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 1987, pp. 16-21, 53, cat. no. 3, repr.
1988: Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 19 (1984), 1988, Yukiyama, Koji. New Acquisitions 1984. pp.16-20, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions 1984. pp. 32-43, repr.
1989: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (exh. cat.). Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, ed. Machida, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 1989, pp. 57, 141, cat. no. 39-1, repr.
1996: Archaeology of the Future City (exh. cat.). Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo et al., eds. [Tokyo], Tokyo Shimbun, 1996, pp. 66, 211, cat. no. C-18, repr.