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Frieze with Serpents and Bacchantes (a fragment of the entire plate of marble decorations from Hadrian's Villa)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1778
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 40.7 x 16.7 cm (16 x 6 9/16 in.)(a fragment of the entire plate)
Credit Line
Gift of Francis Bullard
Accession NumberM22007
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind, p. 87 (1778); Focillon 677
Marks
Verso, bottom center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceFrancis Bullard, Boston (1862-1913); his gift to the MFA December 1, 1911