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Title-Page to Parte Seconda of the Antichità Romane

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1748

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 36.5 x 51.6 cm (14 3/8 x 20 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 12.8 x 26.4 cm (5 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Vershbow
Accession Number67.1214
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind, p. 76, no. 17; Focillon 57
State i
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceBy 1967, Charlotte Z. (b. 1924 - d. 2000) and Arthur E. (b. 1922 - d. 2012) Vershbow, Newton Centre, MA; 1967, year-end gift of Mr. and Mrs. Vershbow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 10, 1968)