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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V. Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano
- Description:
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View of the inlet.
- 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
- 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 46 x 64 cm, on sheet 61 x 90 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z151p
- 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: 620
Descrizione e disegno dell'emissario del Lago Albano, plate 5
- 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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Signature, lower left. Lettered with plate information, plate upper margin: Tav. V
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.11
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol11_052
- Barcode:
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36666001163969
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