Veduta degli avanzi sopra terra dell'antico ustrino, e delle fabbriche pertinenti al medesimo

Veduta degli avanzi sopra terra dell'antico ustrino, e delle fabbriche pertinenti al medesimo

Item Information

Title:
Veduta degli avanzi sopra terra dell'antico ustrino, e delle fabbriche pertinenti al medesimo
Title (translated):
View of the visible remains of the ancient ustrinum [crematorium] and adjacent structures
Title (alt.):
VI. Veduta degli avanzi sopra terra dell'antico ustrino, e delle fabbriche pertinenti al medesimo
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi Archit. del. et inc.
Date:
1756 (created)
1835–1837 (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
Series:
Piranesi Volume 3: Piranesi Antichità Romane 3 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3
Subjects:
Crematoriums
Archaeological sites
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Appio Pignatelli (quartiere)
Via Appia antica
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 40 x 60 cm, on sheet 61 x 90 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7s75g900h
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
Italian
Notes:
Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely I: 426
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3, plate 6
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
Notes (date):
Dates supplied by cataloger from catalogue raisonné. Plates from this series originally created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1756. His son Francesco and his daughter Laura both worked with him and, after his death, maintained the original plates. The twenty-nine volumes in Boston Public Library’s Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection were assembled and published in Paris from 1835-1837.
Notes (citation):
Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume I." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
Signature, lower right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom. III. VI
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.03
Identifier:
19_04_vol03_006
Barcode:
3666001165394