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Artist/Maker
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(Italian, 1720 - 1778)
Date1775
MediumEtching
DimensionsComposition: 15 3/4 × 27 in. (40 × 68.6 cm)
Plate: 16 × 27 1/8 in. (40.6 × 68.9 cm)
Sheet: 17 1/2 × 28 3/4 in. (44.5 × 73 cm)
Credit LineGift of David and Anne Beilby Strauss in memory of George E. Beilby Jr., Class of 1938
Object number1987.15
Not on view
Additional Details
Provenance
1987: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Anne Beilbly Strauss;
? - 1987: Anne Beilbly Strauss, by gift or inheritance from her father, George E. Beilby Jr., Class of 1938;
?: George E. Beilby Jr., by gift or inheritance from his father-in-law, George H. Sicard, Class of 1906;
?: George H. Sicard, by gift of Melancthon Woolsey Stryker.
? - 1987: Anne Beilbly Strauss, by gift or inheritance from her father, George E. Beilby Jr., Class of 1938;
?: George E. Beilby Jr., by gift or inheritance from his father-in-law, George H. Sicard, Class of 1906;
?: George H. Sicard, by gift of Melancthon Woolsey Stryker.
Published References
John Wilton-Ely, GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI: THE COMPLETE ETCHINGS, vol. I (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994), p. 232;
Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, "Acquisitions 1987," FRIENDS OF ART NEWSLETTER, vol. 1, no. 1 (February 1988);
Carlo A. Petrucci, CATALOGO GENERALE DELLA STAMPE TRATTE DAI RAMI INCISI POSSEDUTI DELLA CALCOGRAFIA NAZIONALE (Rome, 1953);
Arthur M. Hind, GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI: A CRITICAL STUDY WITH A LIST OF HIS PUBLISHED WORKS AND DETAILED CATALOGUES OF THE PRISONS AND THE VIEWS OF ROME (London, 1922);
Henri Focillon, GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI: ESAI DE CATALOGUE RAISONNE DE SON OEUVRE (Paris, 1918).
Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, "Acquisitions 1987," FRIENDS OF ART NEWSLETTER, vol. 1, no. 1 (February 1988);
Carlo A. Petrucci, CATALOGO GENERALE DELLA STAMPE TRATTE DAI RAMI INCISI POSSEDUTI DELLA CALCOGRAFIA NAZIONALE (Rome, 1953);
Arthur M. Hind, GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI: A CRITICAL STUDY WITH A LIST OF HIS PUBLISHED WORKS AND DETAILED CATALOGUES OF THE PRISONS AND THE VIEWS OF ROME (London, 1922);
Henri Focillon, GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI: ESAI DE CATALOGUE RAISONNE DE SON OEUVRE (Paris, 1918).
Signature
Not signed.
Inscribed
"Presso Vautona; in plate at lower right: Veduta del Campidoglio di fianco / 1. Statue enea Equestre di M. Aurelio nell' aja Capitolina. 2. Palazzo di / Sua Eccza il Senator di Roma. 3. Palazzo degli Eccmi Conservatori di Roma / 4. Museo Capitolino. 5. Trofei d'Augusto, volgarmente detti di Mario. / 6.7. Colossi di Cajo e Lucio sotto il Simbolo di Castore e Polluce. / 8.9. Statue di Costantino Magno. 10. Colonna milliaria. 11 Palazzo Caffarelli." in plate at lower left.
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