Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Pianta e frammenti della camera sepolcrale esistente nella Vigna Casali a Porta S. Sebastiano
Item Information
- Title:
- Pianta e frammenti della camera sepolcrale esistente nella Vigna Casali a Porta S. Sebastiano
- Title (translated):
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Plan and fragments from the tomb chambers in the Casali vineyards at Porta San Sebastiano
- Title (alt.):
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LV. Pianta e frammenti della camera sepolcrale esistente nella Vigna Casali a Porta S. Sebastiano
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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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
Plans
- 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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Inscriptions
Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Celio (rione)
Porta San Sebastiano
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate marks 38 x 51 cm and 5 x 51 cm, on sheet 60 x 90 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c1599
- 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: 412
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 55
- 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 left. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper right: LV. Tom. II
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.02
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol02_055
- Barcode:
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3666001165014
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