Sezione prospettica dell'Anfiteatro Albano, presa su la linea DIH della pianta delineata nella Tav. XI

Sezione prospettica dell'Anfiteatro Albano, presa su la linea DIH della pianta delineata nella Tav. XI

Item Information

Title:
Sezione prospettica dell'Anfiteatro Albano, presa su la linea DIH della pianta delineata nella Tav. XI
Title (translated):
Constructional diagrams of the Amphitheater of Domitian, Albano...
Title (alt.):
XII: Sezione prospettica dell'Anfiteatro Albano...
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi F.
Date:
1764 (created)
1836 (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Diagrams
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
Series:
Piranesi Volume 11: Antichita D'Albano > Antichità di Albano e di Castel Gandolfo
Subjects:
Archaeological sites
Amphitheaters
Walls
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Albano Laziale
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Castel Gandolfo
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 41 x 28 cm, on sheet 61 x 45 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z1074
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Parigi [Paris] : Firmin-Didot
Language:
Italian
Notes:
Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely II: 654
Antichità di Albano e di Castel Gandolfo, plate 12
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
Notes (date):
Dates supplied by cataloger from material accompanying item and catalogue raisonné. Plates from this series originally created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1764. His son Francesco and his daughter Laura both worked with him and, after his death, maintained the original plates. The item in the Boston Public Library’s Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection were assembled and published in Paris in 1836.
Notes (citation):
Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume II." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
Signature, lower right. Lettered with plate information, plate upper right: Tav. XII
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.11
Identifier:
19_04_vol11_024
Barcode:
36666001163746