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Eight Capitals from Roman Buildings (Plate 15 of The Magnificence and Architecture of the Romans)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1761

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 58 x 42 cm (22 13/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
Platemark: 47 x 28 cm (18 1/2 x 11 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. W. J. Moore
Accession Number1972.337
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind, pp. 84-85; Focillon 947
State i
Signed In plate lower right: Piranesi F.
Marks Verso, lower left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Inscriptions
In plate upper left: In Basilica S. Ioannis / Lateranensis.
In plate upper right: In Basilica S. Maria in Cosmedin, / et in templo Divi Sabbae.
In plate left: Coroa, quae / adservatur in / cavo aedium / Farnesianarum
In plate right In vinea J. Lepri / prope aedem Di= / vae Agnetis extra / muros.
In plate left: In hortis Farnesianis
In plate lower right: In vinea J. Lepri
In plate lower center: Capitulum antea impositum in templo / Divi Laurentij extra muros.
In plate lower right: In vinea J. Lepri
Recto lower right margin in graphite pencil: H. p 84-85 / F. p946
ProvenanceMrs. W. J. Moore, Lowell, Massachusette; her gift to the MFA April 12, 1972