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The Theater of Marcellus (Plate 101 of the Views of Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1757
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 55.4 x 82.3 cm (21 13/16 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 40.8 x 55.8 cm (16 1/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
Platemark: 40.8 x 55.8 cm (16 1/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25577
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 033, v/vii; Focillon 818; Robison 33(E)(of G); Ficacci 895
State
v
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 (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)