Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
A. Due framm.ti di tavoloni di terra cotta col marchio sopra
Item Information
- Title:
- A. Due framm.ti di tavoloni di terra cotta col marchio sopra
- Title (translated):
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A. Two fragments of brick stamps...
- Title (alt.):
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XVII. A. Due framm.ti di tavoloni di terra cotta col marchio sopra...
- Description:
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Also sarcophagi and sculptured relief fragments. Figures by Barbault.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc. Barbault scolpi le fig.e
- 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 3: Piranesi Antichità Romane 3 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3
- Subjects:
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Architectural decorations & ornaments
Vases
Sarcophagi
Inscriptions
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate marks 40 x 60 cm and 5 x 61 cm, on sheet 61 x 90 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c224d
- 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: 442
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3, plate 27
- 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 margin. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom. III. XXVII
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.03
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol03_027
- Barcode:
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3666001165600
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