Le Magnificenze di Roma: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
after Francesco Polanzani, Italian, 1700 - about 1783
1750
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 15 1/4 × 11 5/16 in. (38.8 × 28.7 cm)
Sheet: 20 3/4 × 14 11/16 in. (52.7 × 37.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.2
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower left: F. Polanzani faciebat 1750 Super. permissu; Inscribed, in plate, lower left to lower right (on stone base): JO. BAP. PIRANESI / VENET. ARCHITECTUS; Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1]
Exhibition History
Etchings by Piranesi, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 15-November 11, 1978
Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 4-August 22, 1976.
St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, November 15-December 15, 1978.
Publication History
L. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Hanover, NH: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1976, p. 70, no. 95.
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