Veduta della Dogana di Terra a Piazza di Pietra (View of the Customhouse in the Piazza di Pietra), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
published 1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 17 1/2 × 23 11/16 in. (44.4 × 60.2 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 27 5/8 in. (52.8 × 70.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.30
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Piranesi Architetto fec.; Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Veduta della Dogana di Terra a Piazza di Pietra; Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Questa fu fabbricata sulle rovine della Curia di / Antonino Pio nel suo Foro. / 1. Avanzo di Colonne rimaste, oggi mezzo / internate nella nuova Fabbrica. / 2. Architrave antico ristorato. / 3. Cornicione, ed Ordine Attico nuovamente rifatto.; Inscribed, in plate, lower right: 4. Abitazione moderna. / 5. Collegio Bergamasco. 6. Quartiere de'Soldati. / 7. Strada che va al Corso.; Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1]
Exhibition History
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Grandeur and Fantasy: Visions and Views of Rome, Grinnell College, Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, January 22 - February 25, 2007, no.80.
Two Views of Italy: Master Prints by Canaletto and Piranesi, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-September 3, 1995, no.50.
Publication History
Richard Rand and John Varriano, Two Views of Italy: Master Prints by Canaletto and Piranesi, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 50, fig. 21.
Thomas Agran, Judith Barrett, et.al., Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Grandeur and Fantasy: Visions and Views of Rome, Grinnell, Iowa: Grinnell College, Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, 2007, ill. page 10, Figure 1, cat no.80
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 821; Hind 32 i/vi
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