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The Aqueduct of Nero (Plate 48 of the Views of Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1775
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 55.4 x 82 cm (21 13/16 x 32 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 49 x 70.7 cm (19 5/16 x 27 13/16 in.)
Platemark: 49 x 70.7 cm (19 5/16 x 27 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25524
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 118, ii/iv; Focillon 850; Robison 118(B)(of D); Ficacci 989
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 (1844-1884); 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)