Descrizione e disegno dell'emissario del Lago Albano di Gio Batista Piranesi

Descrizione e disegno dell'emissario del Lago Albano di Gio Batista Piranesi

Item Information

Title:
Descrizione e disegno dell'emissario del Lago Albano di Gio Batista Piranesi
Title (translated):
Description and design of the Emissarium of Lake Albano by Gio. Battista Piranesi.
Title (alt.):
Title page: Descrizione e disegno dell'emissario del Lago Albano di Gio Batista Piranesi
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi F.
Date:
1762 (created)
1835–1837 (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Title pages
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
Series:
Piranesi Volume 11: Antichita D'Albano > Descrizione e isegno dell'emissario del Lago Albano
Subjects:
Archaeological sites
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 43 x 27 cm, on sheet 61 x 46 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z141f
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
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: 613
Descrizione e disegno dell'emissario del Lago Albano, title page
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
Notes (date):
Dates supplied by cataloger. Plates from this series originally created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1762. 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 II." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
Signature, lower left.
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.11
Identifier:
19_04_vol11_040
Barcode:
36666001163902