Collegio di Propaganda Fide (College of the Propogation of the Faith), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Raccolte di varie vedute di Roma (The Magnificence of Rome: Collection of Various Views of Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
published 1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 5 1/16 × 7 3/8 in. (12.8 × 18.8 cm)
Sheet: 20 3/4 × 29 9/16 in. (52.7 × 75.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.60A
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in plate, lower right: Piranesi F. Inscribed in plate, lower left to lower right: Collegio di Propaganda Fide / 1. S. Andrea delle Fratte 2. Palazzo Bernini Watermark: [fleur-de-lis in a circle; similar to Hind 1]
Published References
L. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Hanover, NH: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1976, p. 44-5, no. 39a.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon, 93
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