Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Colonna Trajana
Item Information
- Title:
- Colonna Trajana
- Title (translated):
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Trajan's Column
- Title (alt.):
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XXIX. Fig. II. Colonna Trajana
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Architett dis. inc.
- Date:
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1756
(created)
1835–1837 (issued)
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
- Series:
- Piranesi Volume 1: Piranesi Antichità Romane: Opera del Cavaliere > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1
- Subjects:
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Archaeological sites
Columns
Catholic churches
Monuments & memorials
Trajan's Column (Rome, Italy)
Trajan, Emperor of Rome, 53-117
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Trevi (rione)
Columna Traiana
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 14 x 20 cm, on sheet 60 x 45 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86bz99p
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Language:
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Italian
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely I: 335
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1, plate 29, figure 2
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
- Notes (date):
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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):
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Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume I." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Signature, lower right. Lettered with figure information, plate upper left: Fig. II. On same sheet as Wilton-Ely II: 334
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.01
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol01_029a
- Barcode:
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3666001165162
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