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St. John in Lateran (Plate 11 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1775

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55.1 x 82.1 cm (21 11/16 x 32 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 49.1 x 70.6 cm (19 5/16 x 27 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25487
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 117, ii/iv; Focillon 725; Ficacci 988
State ii
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 (c.1843-1884); by bequest to his uncle, Charles Henry Parker (1816-1908); his bequest to the MFA January 1, 1913 (Transferred from library)