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Currently not on display

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Venice, 1720 - Roma, 1778

Le antichità romane (vol. 4)

Date 1756
Materials and Techniques etching, engraving
Size(cm) 53.5 x 39.9 (book size)
Standard ref. Focillon 144-368, 370-395
Category Books
Collection Number L.1990-0004

Provenance

William H. Schab Gallery, New York, by which sold to the NMWA, 1990.

Bibliography

1918
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisoné de son œuvre. Paris, 1918, pp. 20-32.
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, pp. 83-84.
1978
Monferini, Augusta. "Antichità Romane". Piranesi: Incisioni-Rami-Legature-Architecture (exh. cat.). Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini. 3rd ed., Vicenza, 1981(1st ed. 1978) , pp. 33-39.
1986
Robison, Andrew. Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies: a catalogue raisonné of the etchings. Washington D. C., 1986, pp. 215-239.
1994
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 25-26 (April 1990-March 1992), 1994, List of New Acquisitions, p. 48.

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