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The Structure Built by Tarquinius Superbus, Known as the Bel Lido
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The Tiber at the Mouth of the Cloaca Maxima (Plate 57 of the Views of Rome)
The Structure Built by Tarquinius Superbus, Known as the Bel Lido
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1776
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 55.2 x 82 cm (21 3/4 x 32 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 45.1 x 67.5 cm (17 3/4 x 26 9/16 in.)
Platemark: 45.1 x 67.5 cm (17 3/4 x 26 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25533
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 125, i/iii; Focillon 841; Ficacci 996
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)