Frontispiece with Statue of Minerva Amidst Ruins

Inscriptions

Signed, in plate, lower right: Piranesi invento: incise in Roma; Inscribed in plate, lower right (on sarcophagus end) : PIRANESI INVI. INCI. ; Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1]

Exhibition History

Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.

Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 4-August 22, 1976.

Publication History

L. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Hanover, NH: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1976, p. 70, no. 97.

Published References

Andrew Robison, Piranesi-Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1986, 2 A/G. ; Edgar Peters Bowron and Joseph J. Rishel, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000, p. 578, no. 422.: Nicholas Penny, Piranesi, London: Oresko Books Ltd., 1978, p. 36, no. 17.

Catalogue Raisonne

Focillon 786; Hind 2 i/vii

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