M. Valerivs Messalla Corvinvs P Rvtilivs Lvpvs L Ivnivs Silvilvanvs
M. Valerivs Messalla Corvinvs P Rvtilivs Lvpvs L Ivnivs Silvilvanvs
Item Information
Title:
M. Valerivs Messalla Corvinvs P Rvtilivs Lvpvs L Ivnivs Silvilvanvs
Title (translated):
A. One of the two identical dadoes made in form of a pedestal now in the Capitoline Museum, found at the time of Alexander VII in the excavations which are still being carried out around the pyramid...
Title (alt.):
XLII. A. Uno delli due dadi fatti a guisa di piedestallo in tutto simili, i quali esistono nel Museo Capitolino, trovati in tempo di Alessandro VII nello scavo, che si fece allora dintorno alla piramide...
Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely I: 457
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3, plate 42
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):
Signature, lower right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom. III. XLII
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