Veduta della Chiesa di S. Sebastiano fuori delle Mura (View of the Church of San Sebastiano fuori le Mura), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Raccolte di varie vedute di Roma (The Magnificence of Rome: Collection of Various Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778

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published 1752

Etching on heavy laid paper

Plate: 5 1/4 × 6 7/8 in. (13.4 × 17.5 cm)

Sheet: 20 13/16 × 29 9/16 in. (52.8 × 75.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

PR.977.24.59C

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed in plate, lower left: Piranesi fe. Inscribed in plate, lower left to lower right: Veduta della Chiesa di S. Sebastiano fuori delle Mura Watermark: [fleur-de-lis in circle, Hind 1]

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. 44, no. 38c.

Catalogue Raisonne

Focillon, 106

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