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The Piazza and Basilica of St. Peter's (Plate 3 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1748

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 56 x 80 cm (22 1/16 x 31 1/2 in.)
Platemark: 40.1 x 54.3 cm (15 13/16 x 21 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession Number25.1179
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 003, iv/vii; Focillon 787; Robison 3(D)(of G); Ficacci 874
State iv
Marks Verso, lower right-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1925, gift of Miss Ellen Twistleton Bullard (b. 1865 - d. 1959), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 1, 1925)