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Hadrian's Villa: The Smaller Palace, formerly called the Temple of Apollo (Plate 136 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1768

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55 x 82.3 cm (21 5/8 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 47.3 x 62.5 cm (18 5/8 x 24 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25612
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 085, ii/iv; Focillon 771; Ficacci 956
State ii
Marks Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282); verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (not in Lugt)
ProvenanceAlfred Greenough, Boston (c.1843-1884); 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)