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The Baths of Caracalla (Plate 103 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1765

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55.5 x 82.4 cm (21 7/8 x 32 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 44.6 x 70.4 cm (17 9/16 x 27 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25579
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 076, i/iii; Focillon 852; Ficacci 947
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)