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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Venice, 1720 - Roma, 1778

Plan of Rome and the Campus Martius

Date ca. 1774
Materials and Techniques etching and engraving on three laid papers
Size(cm) 121.5 x 75.0
Standard ref. Focillon 600; Hind p. 87; Wilton-Ely 1008
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1998-0020

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), p. 87.
1967
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi. Calvesi, Maurizio; Monferini, Augusta, eds. Guglielmi, Giuseppe, trans. Bologna, Alfa, 1967, p. 324.
1975
Scott, Jonathan. Piranesi. London, Academy Editions, 1975, p. 312 (n.12).
1978
Zamboni, Silla. "Pianta del corso del Tevere". 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. 62-63.
1986
Robison, Andrew. "Watermarks". Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies, a Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings. Washington D. C., 1986, pp. 215-239.
1989
Piranesi: Rome recorded (exh. cat.). Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. New York, 1989, pp. 18-19, fig. 14.
2000
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 33 (April 1998-March 1999), 2000, List of New Acquisitions. p. 45. 

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