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Frontispiece to the Views of Rome (A Fantasy of Ruins with a Statue of Minerva)(Plate 69 of the Views of Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
about 1748
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 55.3 x 82.4 cm (21 3/4 x 32 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 50.4 x 64.1 cm (19 13/16 x 25 1/4 in.)
Platemark: 50.4 x 64.1 cm (19 13/16 x 25 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25545
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 002, v/vii; Focillon 786; Robison 2(E)(of G); Ficacci 873
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceAlfred Greenough, Boston (c.1843-1884); by bequest to his uncle, Charles Henry Parker (1816-1908); his bequest to the MFA January 1, 1913 (Transferred from library)