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The Grand Piazza (Plate IV of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1761
Medium/Technique
Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing
Dimensions
Sheet: 63.3 x 46.7 cm (24 15/16 x 18 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 54.1 x 41.2 cm (21 5/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
Platemark: 54.1 x 41.2 cm (21 5/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund, by exchange
Accession Number63.570
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 004, ii/iii; Focillon 27; Robison 31, v/vi (Second Edition, Fourth Issue, through early printings of Fifth Edition, c. 1775-1835); Ficacci 113
State
iii
Description
Marks
Verso, bottom right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceBen Weinreb, London (1912-1999); from whom purchased May 8, 1963