The Grand Piazza, from the series Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'Invenzione)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
about 1749-1750; published 1753
Etching on heavy laid paper
First edition, second issue
Plate: 21 3/8 × 16 1/4 in. (54.3 × 41.2 cm)
Sheet: 27 15/16 × 20 5/8 in. (70.9 × 52.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.25.52
Publisher
Giovanni Bouchard, Rome, Italy
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Watermark: [fleur-de-lis in circle, Hind 1]
Course History
CLST 7, The Idea of Rome, Margaret Williamson, Spring 2012
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
Exhibition History
Etchings by Piranesi, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 15-November 11, 1978.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
Greece vs. Rome: the Eighteenth-Century Quest for the Sources of Western Civilization, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, January 7-April 18, 2010.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 27, 2003-February 8, 2004.
Points of View, Art History 2, ARTH 2, Winter 2016, Joy Kenseth and Mary Coffey, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1-March 13, 2016.
Prisons/ Impressions: Piranesi's Carceri, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, SArt 27 and 28, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 16-April 28, 1996.
Rome in the 18th Century, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut, October 13-November 19, 1973.
Publication History
Andrew Robison, Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 139, 212, 240-241.
Lawrence W. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1976, pp. 63-64, no. 81.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 160-161, ill. p.161, no. 96.
Provenance
Purchased by Sir Robert Throckmorton (1702-1791), fourth baronet of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, in 1754.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 27; Hind 4, i/iii; Robison 31
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