Archyginnasio Romano (The Roman Archiginnasio), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Raccolte di varie dedute di Roma (The Magnificence of Rome: Collection of Various Views of Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 5 1/16 × 7 7/16 in. (12.9 × 18.9 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 29 1/2 in. (52.8 × 74.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.41A
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in plate, lower right: Piranesi F. Inscribed in plate, lower left: 1. Palazzo de Cenci; Inscribed in plate, lower center: Archyginnasio Romano Watermark: [fleur-de-lis in circle, Hind 1]
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. 28, no. 20a.
Published References
L. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Hanover, NH: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1976, p. 28, no. 20a.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon, 114
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