Varie vedute di Roma antica e moderna disegnate e intagliate da celebri autori

published 1748

Jean Barbault

Artist, French, 1718 - 1762

Philothee-Francois Duflos

Artist, French, c. 1710 - 1746

Jean-Laurent Legeay

Artist, French, c. 1710 - after 1788

Various Artists

Artist

Niccolò Mogalli

Artist, Italian, born 1723

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Author, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: etched title page and 149 etchings (full-page, versos blank), 48 signed by Piranesi, artists include Niccolo Mogalli, Philothee-François Duflos, Jean-Laurent Legeay, Bellicard, P. Anesi, Jean Barbault, P.L. Magini

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • Dimensions

    page size: 22.4 x 33.5 cm (8 13/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 22.3 x 33.8 x 3.9 cm (8 3/4 x 13 5/16 x 1 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.8.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Focillon 1918, no. 72, State -119

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lord Grantham (bookplate); Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1918

  • Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

1922

  • Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome. London: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 337; fig.6.14, 338.

2000

  • Pollak et al. 2000, no.84

Inscriptions

in gold-tooled lettering on red leather label on spine: VIEWS OF ROME

Markings

inside front cover: Grantham bookplate

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