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The Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli (Vertical Plate)(Plate 124 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1761

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 73.9 x 55 cm (29 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.)
Platemark: 62.6 x 44.2 cm (24 5/8 x 17 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25599
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 063, ii/iv; Focillon 766; Robison 63, ii/iv; Ficacci 934
Marks Verso, lower left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282); verso, lower right-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)