Plans, Views, and Cross-Sections of Buildings at Thermopylae

Requires Photography

Francesco Piranesi (Italian, 1758–1810)
After: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)

1804

Medium/Technique Etching

Dimensions Sheet: 43.2 x 59.1 cm (17 x 23 1/4 in.)
Platemark: 36.7 x 53.8 cm (14 7/16 x 21 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. W. J. Moore

Accession Number1972.335

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné from Le Blanc 12

Marks Verso, left, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

InscriptionsEtched in the plate, top left corner, the number "166"

ProvenanceMrs. W. J. Moore, Lowell, Massachusetts; her gift to the MFA April 12, 1972