Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Iscrizioni e frammenti delle camere sepolcrali della Famiglia Arrunzia ec.
Item Information
- Title:
- Iscrizioni e frammenti delle camere sepolcrali della Famiglia Arrunzia ec.
- Title (translated):
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Inscriptions and fragments from the tomb chambers of the Arruntii, etc.
- Title (alt.):
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XIV. Iscrizioni e frammenti delle camere sepolcrali della Famiglia Arrunzia ec.
- Description:
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Figures by J. Barbault.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc. Barbault scolp. le fig
- Date:
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1756
(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 2: Piranesi Antichità Romane 2 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2
- Subjects:
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Inscriptions
Architectural decorations & ornaments
Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Containers
Arruntius, L. (Lucius), active 43 B.C.-17 B.C.
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Esquilino (rione)
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate marks 40 x 49 cm and 5 x 49 cm, on sheet 61 x 89 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z6040m913
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Language:
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Italian
Latin
- 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 I: 371
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 14
- 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 1756. 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 I." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Signatures, Piranesi lower left, Barbault lower right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom. II. XIV
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.02
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol02_014
- Barcode:
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3666001164306
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