A. Spaccato per traverso della grand urna col sua coperchio, scavato di dentro a simiglianza di una volta a crociera

A. Spaccato per traverso della grand urna col sua coperchio, scavato di dentro a simiglianza di una volta a crociera

Item Information

Title:
A. Spaccato per traverso della grand urna col sua coperchio, scavato di dentro a simiglianza di una volta a crociera
Title (translated):
A. Section of a large sarcophagus with its cover...
Title (alt.):
XXV. A. Spaccato per traverso della grand urna col sua coperchio...
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Date:
1756 (created)
1835–1837 (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Sections
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
Series:
Piranesi Volume 2: Piranesi Antichità Romane 2 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2
Subjects:
Sarcophagi
Candlesticks
Chiesa di S. Costanza (Rome, Italy)
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Trieste (quartiere)
Santa Costanza
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 60 x 40 cm, on sheet 90 x 61 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c101w
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: 382
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 25
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):
Unsigned. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom. II. XXV
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.02
Identifier:
19_04_vol02_025
Barcode:
3666001164710