View of the Trajan's column, Rome
Print
1740-1760 (published)
1740-1760 (published)
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This print is from Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma), a set of 135 plates produced individually by Giovanni Battista Piranesi from the late 1740s until his death in 1778.
According to Piranesi’s cataloguer John Wilton-Ely, the earliest fixed date for the series is 1751 when 34 of the plates were published by Giovanni Bouchard in Le Magnificenze di Roma. It has been established that at least 19 were available in a distinct set much earlier, probably even before 1748. In the 1756 list of Piranesi’s work, there were 39 Views for sale.
Piranesi’s sons Francesco and Pietro later republished the Views in two bound albums (First Paris edition, 1800-1807).
The copperplates are now in the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome.
According to Piranesi’s cataloguer John Wilton-Ely, the earliest fixed date for the series is 1751 when 34 of the plates were published by Giovanni Bouchard in Le Magnificenze di Roma. It has been established that at least 19 were available in a distinct set much earlier, probably even before 1748. In the 1756 list of Piranesi’s work, there were 39 Views for sale.
Piranesi’s sons Francesco and Pietro later republished the Views in two bound albums (First Paris edition, 1800-1807).
The copperplates are now in the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Etching, ink on paper |
| Brief description | 'View of the Trajan's column, Rome' from Vedute di Roma, etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Rome, c. 1740-1760 |
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| Object history | Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides. |
| Production | First published by Giovanni Bouchard, Rome late 1740s-1760; Piranesi continued to published the plates individually from c. 1760. |
| Summary | This print is from Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma), a set of 135 plates produced individually by Giovanni Battista Piranesi from the late 1740s until his death in 1778. According to Piranesi’s cataloguer John Wilton-Ely, the earliest fixed date for the series is 1751 when 34 of the plates were published by Giovanni Bouchard in Le Magnificenze di Roma. It has been established that at least 19 were available in a distinct set much earlier, probably even before 1748. In the 1756 list of Piranesi’s work, there were 39 Views for sale. Piranesi’s sons Francesco and Pietro later republished the Views in two bound albums (First Paris edition, 1800-1807). The copperplates are now in the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome. |
| Bibliographic reference | John Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The Complete Etchings, 2 vols., 1st ed., San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994 |
| Other number | M-1400_715 - Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome – matrix inventory number |
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| Accession number | CAI.933 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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