Advanced Search
Requires Photography
The Column of Marcus Aurelius (Plate 32 of the Views of Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1758
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 82.3 x 55.4 cm (32 3/8 x 21 13/16 in.)
Platemark: 55.1 x 40.5 cm (21 11/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Platemark: 55.1 x 40.5 cm (21 11/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25508
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 052, v/vii; Focillon 799; Robison 52(F)(of H); Ficacci 889
Marks
Verso, left center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282); verso, lower 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)