2008.312.94: View of the Remains of the Praetorian Fort [the Poecile] in Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2008.312.94

People

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)

Title

View of the Remains of the Praetorian Fort [the Poecile] in Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Vedute di Roma
Original Language Title: Veduta degli Avanzi del castro Pretorio nella Villa Adriana a Tivoli
Former Title: Hadrian's Villa: The So-called Poecile

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1770

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/232721

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

image: 36.7 × 65.1 cm (14 7/16 × 25 5/8 in.)
plate: 37.3 × 65.7 cm (14 11/16 × 25 7/8 in.)
sheet: 54.3 × 78.8 cm (21 3/8 × 31 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower right, graphite: H. 94
• inscription: lower left, in plate: Cavalier Piranesi delin. ed. inc.
• inscription: lower right, in plate: Veduta degli avanzi del Castro Pretorio / nella Villa Adriana a Tivoli

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

i/iv

Standard Reference Number

Wilton-Ely 227; Hind 94

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Permanent transfer from the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, Gift of Thomas Palmer, Esq., of Boston, 1772

Accession Year

2008

Object Number

2008.312.94

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Rome: Eternal City, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018

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• 2008.312.1-101

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