Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano. Tartaro dell'acqua

Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano. Tartaro dell'acqua

Item Information

Title:
Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano. Tartaro dell'acqua
Title (translated):
Illustrations of the Emissarium of Lake Albano
Title (alt.):
VI. Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano
Description:
View of the substructure of the inlet.
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi F.
Date:
1762 (created)
1835–1837 (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
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:
Hydraulic facilities
Tunnels
Lakes & ponds
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Albano, Lago (lake)
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 42 x 56 cm, on sheet 61 x 89 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z1537
Terms of Use:
No Copyright - United States
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: 621
Descrizione e disegno dell'emissario del Lago Albano, plate 6
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 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 right. Lettered with plate information, plate upper right: Tav. VI
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.11
Identifier:
19_04_vol11_053
Barcode:
36666001163977