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The Fontana dell' Acqua Felice (Plate 35 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1751

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55.3 x 82.3 cm (21 3/4 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 41 x 69.4 cm (16 1/8 x 27 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25511
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 020, iii/v; Focillon 735; Ficacci 925
State iii
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)