Rudera Viae Flaminiae (Ruin of the Via Flaminia)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
1762; print early 19th century
Etching on laid paper
late impression
Overall: 10 15/16 × 15 3/4 in. (27.8 × 40 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Maida and George Abrams
PR.974.185
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left to right: 1. Rudera viae Flaminiae. 2. Soum viae ab imbribus praeruptum. 3. Silices, et: 4. glarea, quibus via antiquitus munibatur. 5. Iter novum.; lower left: Vide indicem ruinar num. 6.7; upper right: Tab. XXXVIII
Exhibition History
Piranesi at Dartmouth, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 4-August 22, 1976, no. 161.
Publication History
Larry W. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH: 1976, p. 94, no. 161.
Provenance
Maida Stocker Abrams (1938-2002) and George S. Abrams, Boston, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1974.
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