Title page with print of the Temple of Bacchus (Tempio di Bacco), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Raccolte di varie vedute di Roma (The Magnificence of Rome: Collection of Various Views of Rome)
F. Pierre Duflos, French, 1710 - 1746
1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 5 3/16 × 7 3/16 in. (13.1 × 18.3 cm)
Sheet: 20 11/16 × 14 3/4 in. (52.6 × 37.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.39
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in plate, lower left: F.P. Deflos del. et scul.ol Inscribed in plate (print): Tempio di Bacco; inscribed in sheet: RACCOLTE / DI VARIE VEDUTE / DI ROMA / SI ANTICA CHE MODERNA / INTAGLIATE LA MAGGIOR PARTE / DAL CELEBRE / GIANBATISTA PIRANESI / E DA ALTRI INCISORI. / Le fudette fono in numero di novantatre, / e fi vendono in Roma / DA GIOVANNI BOUCHARD / LIBRAJO AL CORSO VICINO A SAN MARCELLO./ IN ROMA, MDCCLII. / NELLA STAMPERIA DI GIOVANNI GENEROSO SALOMONJ. / CON LICENZA DE SUPERIORI.
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.27, no. 18.
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