Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Veduta interna di una delle tre sale sepolcrali credute della Famiglia di Augusto
Item Information
- Title:
- Veduta interna di una delle tre sale sepolcrali credute della Famiglia di Augusto
- Title (translated):
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Interior view of the three large tomb chambers thought to belong to the Household of Augustus
- Title (alt.):
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XLII. Veduta interna di una delle tre sale sepolcrali credute della Famiglia di Augusto
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. e inc. Piranesi Architetto 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
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Appio Latino (quartiere)
Hostaria Antica Roma, Rome, Italy
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate marks 38 x 52 cm and 5 x 52 cm, on sheet 60 x 90 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c1335
- Terms of Use:
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No Copyright - United States
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: 399
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 42
- 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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Signatures, lower right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: XLII Tom. II
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.02
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol02_042
- Barcode:
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3666001164884
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