La Grotta de Posilipo, cioè via sotteranea scavata nei vivo sasso per la lunghezza di più di stadj fra Napoli... (The Interior of the Grotto of Posilippo, Naples, that is the underground path excavated for the length of more than stadjes from Naples...)
Francesco Piranesi, Italian, 1758 - 1810
after Louis Jean Desprez, French, 1743 - 1804
1791
Etching on paper
Plate: 30 1/4 × 19 7/8 in. (76.8 × 50.5 cm)
Sheet: 31 11/16 × 22 1/2 in. (80.5 × 57.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl, and John S. Stahl in memory of their parents Barbara J. and David G. Stahl, Class of 1947
2014.73.101
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower right, in plate: Cav. Franc. Piranesi inc. 1791; inscribed, lower left, in plate: L. Despres del. ; inscribed, in plate, bottom margin, left to right: La Grotta di Posilipo, cioe via sotterranea scavata nel vivo sasso per la lunghezza di piu di due stadj fra Napoli e Pozzuolo / pratticata dagli antichi per comodo della via littorale ad evitar la salita del monte
Provenance
Collected by Barbara Jaffe Stahl (1930-2004) and David Gerald Stahl (1926-2013), Manchester, New Hampshire; bequeathed to their children Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl and John S. Stahl, 2013; given to present collection, 2014.
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