Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Pianta del Mausoleo di Ottaviano Augusto
Item Information
- Title:
- Pianta del Mausoleo di Ottaviano Augusto
- Title (translated):
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Plan of the Mausoleum of Augustus...
- Title (alt.):
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LX. Pianta del Mausoleo di Ottaviano Augusto...
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. et 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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Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Mausoleum of Augustus (Rome, Italy)
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Campo Marzio (rione)
Mausoleo di Augusto
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 35 x 24 cm, on sheet 60 x 46 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c171k
- 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: 418
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 61
- 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. LXI
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.02
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol02_061
- Barcode:
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3666001165071
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