Decorative Stucco Ceiling from Hadrian's Villa (Plate 22 of the Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi...)

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Decorative Stucco Ceiling from Hadrian's Villa (Plate 22 of the Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi...)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)

1768-1778

Medium/Technique Etching

Dimensions Sheet: 78.4 x 105.7 cm (30 7/8 x 41 5/8 in.)(two sheets joined together)
Platemark: 71.3 x 97.7 cm (28 1/16 x 38 7/16 in.)(printed from two plates)

Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection

Accession NumberM25614.22

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind, p. 87, 1778; Focillon 620; Ficacci 752

Marks Verso, left center and right center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282); verso, left center and right center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (not in Lugt)

ProvenanceAlfred Greenough, Boston (1844-1884); by bequest to his uncle, Charles Henry Parker, Boston (1816-1908); his bequest to the MFA 1909 (transferred from library; accession date January 1, 1913)