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The Piazza and Basilica of St. Peter's (Plate 3 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1748

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55 x 82.3 cm (21 5/8 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 40.2 x 54.6 cm (15 13/16 x 21 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25479
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 003, v/vii; Focillon 787; Robison 3(E)(of G); Ficacci 874
Marks Verso, upper center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
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)