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The Arch of Constantine (Plate 93 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1771

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55.5 x 82.3 cm (21 7/8 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 48.2 x 71.3 cm (19 x 28 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25569
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 097, i/iii; Focillon 757; Ficacci 968
State i
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)