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Currently not on display

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Venice, 1720 - Roma, 1778

<The Views of Rome>: Column of Marcus Aurelius

Date 1748?-49?
Materials and Techniques etching and engraving
Watermarks Fleurs-de-lys in double circle (Robison 34)
Size(cm) 54.3 x 40.2
Inscriptions Signed, lower right: Piranesi fecit; With address, lower right: Si vendono da Gio. Bouchard in Roma presso S. Marcello sulla via del Corso; Title: Colonna Antonina
Standard ref. Focillon 799; Hind 52 (II/VII); Robison (52) B; Wilton-Ely 151.
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1989-0052

Provenance

Dedicated by artist to Olivier Hope; Baron Henri de Triquetti (1804-1874); Childe; De Sartiges; Paul Prouté, Paris; Purchased by the NMWA, 1989.

Bibliography

1918
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisoné de son œuvre. Paris, 1918, pp. 50-57.
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. 30-73.
1970
Robison, Andrew. The 'Vedute di Roma' of Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Notes towards a Revision of Hind's Catalogue. Nouvelles de l'estampe, no. 4, 1970, pp. 180-197.
1978
Wilton-Ely, John. The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. London, Thames and Hudson, 1978, pp. 25-44, 297, pl. 1-137.
1983
Robison, Andrew. "Dating Piranesi's Early 'Vedute di Roma'". 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. 11-33.
1986
Robison, Andrew. "Watermarks". Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies, a Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings. Washington D. C., 1986, pp. 215-239.
1989
Marini, Maurizio. Le vedute di Roma di Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Roma, Newton Compton, 1989
1989
Piranesi: Rome Recorded (exh. cat.). Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. New York, 1989
1992
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 23-24 (1988-89), 1992, Koshikawa, Michiaki. New Acquisitions 1988-89. pp. 29, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions 1988-89. pp. 48-83, repr.

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