Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
A. Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce
Item Information
- Title:
- A. Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce
- Title (translated):
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A. Remains of the Temple of Castor and Pollux...
- Title (alt.):
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XXXIII. Fig. I. A. Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce...
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. diseg. e incise
- 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
Roman temples
Temple of the Dioscuri in the Roman Forum (Rome, Italy)
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Roman Forum (historic site)
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 14 x 20 cm, on sheet 60 x 46 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c0126
- 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: 342
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1, plate 33, figure 1
- 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 plate and figure information, plate upper right: Tav. XXXIII Fig. I. On same sheet as Wilton-Ely II: 343
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.01
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol01_033
- Barcode:
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3666001165204
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