Veduta del Porto di Ripetta (View of the Port of the Ripetta), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
published 1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 15 9/16 × 23 3/8 in. (39.6 × 59.3 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 26 15/16 in. (52.8 × 68.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.35
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 del Porto di Ripetta; Inscribed, in plate, lower left: 1. S. Girolamo de'Schiavoni. 2. Dogana di Ripetta. 3. Colonne, o / mete, nelle quali sono segnate le maggiori escrescenze del Tevere. 4. Pa- / lazzo del Principe Borghese. 5. Stale dello stesso Principe. 6. Palazzo della; Inscribed, in plate, lower right: sua Famiglia. 7. Colleggio Clementino.; Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1]
Exhibition History
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.53.
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. 53.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 812; Hind 28 i/viii
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