Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Arco di Severo, e Caracalla
Item Information
- Title:
- Arco di Severo, e Caracalla
- Title (translated):
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The Arch of Septimius Severus
- Title (alt.):
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XXXI. Fig II. Arco di Severo, e Caracalla
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Architetto 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
Memorial arches
Severus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome, 146-211
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Campitelli (rione)
Arco di Severo
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 12 x 27 cm, on sheet 60 x 45 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c0062
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Language:
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Italian
Latin
- 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: 339
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1, plate 31, 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 right: Fig. II. On same sheet as Wilton-Ely II: 338
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.01
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol01_031a
- Barcode:
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3666001165188
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