Arco di Costantino in Roma (Arch of Constantine in Rome), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Antichità Romane de'tempi della Repubblica
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
published 1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 5 1/16 × 10 5/16 in. (12.9 × 26.2 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/4 × 20 13/16 in. (37.4 × 52.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.91
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in plate, lower left: PIRANESI F. Inscribed in plate, lower right: ARCO DI COSTANTINO IN ROMA; upper left: Tav. 9. Watermark: close to Colnaghi 4.
Exhibition History
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, listed p.71.
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. 51, no. 50.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon, 50
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