Rear View of the Pronaos of the Temple of Neptune (Plate XIV of the Views of Paestum)

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

1778

Medium/Technique Etching

Dimensions Sheet: 49.3 x 66.5 cm (19 7/16 x 26 3/16 in.)(trimmed on the platemark)

Credit Line Bequest from Charles Henry Parker

Accession Number09.647

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind, p. 87; Focillon 596; Ficacci 865 (a proof impression before the inscription and signature in the bottom margin)

State I

Marks Verso, left center and lower right-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

ProvenanceCharles Henry Parker, Boston (1816-1908); his bequest to the MFA 1909 (transferred from Library Book 11545; accessioned March 20, 1963)