Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano
Item Information
- Title:
- Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano
- Title (translated):
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Illustrations of the Emissarium of Lake Albano
- Title (alt.):
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III. Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano
- Description:
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Fig. I Section of inlet structure; Figs. II-VII. Diagrams reconstructing access to tunnel excavations; Figs. VIII-X. Elevation, section and view of outlet end of tunnel.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi F.
- Date:
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1762
(created)
1835–1837 (issued)
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Diagrams
Sections
Elevations
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
- Series:
- Piranesi Volume 11: Antichita D'Albano > Descrizione e isegno dell'emissario del Lago Albano
- Subjects:
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Hydraulic facilities
Tunnels
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Albano, Lago (lake)
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 44 x 69 cm, on sheet 61 x 89 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z1473
- 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 II: 618
Descrizione e disegno dell'emissario del Lago Albano, plate 3
- 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 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):
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Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume II." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Fold-out plate. Signature, lower right. Lettered with plate information, plate upper margin: Tav. III
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.11
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol11_050
- Barcode:
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36666001163944
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