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Currently not on display

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Venice, 1720 - Roma, 1778

<The Views of Rome>: The Fontana di Trevi

Date 1773
Materials and Techniques etching and engraving
Size(cm) 47.2 x 70.7 (plate); 57.8 x 75.5 (paper)
Inscriptions Signed: Cavalier Piranesi F.; Title: Vedura in prospettiva della gran Fontana dell'Aqua Vergine detta di Trevi Architettura di Nicola Salvi.
Standard ref. Focillon 734; Hind104, I/III ; Rome Recorded104; Wilton-Ely 237.
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1997-0037

Bibliography

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.
1989
Marini, Maurizio. Le vedute di Roma di Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Roma, Newton Compton, 1989
1999
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 32 (April 1997-March 1998), 1999, List of New Acquisitions. pp. 19-22.

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