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The Ponte Salario (Plate 55 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1754

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55.3 x 82.3 cm (21 3/4 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 40.8 x 62.7 cm (16 1/16 x 24 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25531
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 031, iii/v; Focillon 744; Robison 31(D)(of F); Ficacci 918
State iii
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)