Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Pianta delle camere sepolcrali de' Liberti, e della famiglia di L. Arrunzio
Item Information
- Title:
- Pianta delle camere sepolcrali de' Liberti, e della famiglia di L. Arrunzio
- Title (translated):
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Plan of the tomb chambers of the freedmen of the household of L. Arruntius
- Title (alt.):
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VIII. Pianta delle camere sepolcrali de' Liberti, e della famiglia di L. Arrunzio
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. ed 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 2: Piranesi Antichità Romane 2 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2
- Subjects:
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Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Arruntius, L. (Lucius), active 43 B.C.-17 B.C.
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Esquilino (rione)
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 37 x 21 cm, on sheet 60 x 44 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c0682
- 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: 365
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 8
- 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 volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom. II. VIII
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.02
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol02_008
- Barcode:
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3666001164249
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