Veduta dell' interno dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Interior of the Flavian Amphitheater called the Colosseum)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
about 1800
Etching on laid paper
1st Paris edition
Overall: 18 × 27 1/4 in. (45.7 × 69.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Edward Connery Lathem, Class of 1951
2009.89.7
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower right: Veduta dell' interno dell' Anfiteatro Flavio / detto il Colosseo; lower right: Cav.'' Piranesi fece
Provenance
Estate of Edward Connery Lathem (1926-2009), Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2009.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hind 78
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