- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2008.312.29
- People
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- View of the Bridge and Castel Sant’ Angelo
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: Vedute di Roma
Former Title: The Ponte and Castel S. Angelo
Original Language Title: Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant'Angelo - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1754
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/237489
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- image: 35.3 × 58.2 cm (13 7/8 × 22 15/16 in.)
plate: 37.7 × 58.8 cm (14 13/16 × 23 1/8 in.)
sheet: 54.2 × 79.1 cm (21 5/16 × 31 1/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower right, graphite: H.29
- inscription: lower center, in plate: Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant' Angelo.
- inscription: lower left, in plate: 1. Avanzi del Sepolcro di Adriano Imp.re Da questo furono levate da Constan- / tino Magno le Colonne dell Basilica di S. Apolo fuori delle mura. Nella cima / di esso era colocata la Pigna di metallo, dento la quale stavano riposte le ceneri / del medesimo da qué fu trasportata insieme coi Pavoni pur di me-
- inscription: lower right, in plate: tallo nel Giardino di Belvedere nel Vaticano. Questo Sepolcro poi fu ridotto in for- / ma di Castello. 2. Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano. 3. Palazzo Pontificio. 4. Ospi- / tale di S. Spirito. 5. Teatro di Tordinona. 6. Espurgo delle immondezze della / Città. Prasso l'Autorne a Strada Felice nel palazzo Tomati vicino all Trinità de 'monti. A paoli due mezzo.
- inscription: lower center, in plate: 6
- inscription: lower right, in plate: Piranesi si Architetto fec.
- inscription: upper right, in plate: 1
- inscription: upper center, in plate: 3
- inscription: upper left, in plate: 5
- inscription: upper center, in plate: 2
- inscription: upper left center, in plate: 4
- Provenance
- Thomas Palmer, Esq., Boston, gift; to Harvard University, 1772, transferred; to Harvard Art Museums, 2008
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- iii(?)/vii
- Standard Reference Number
- Hind 29; Focillon 793; Salamon D33; Wilton-Ely 156
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
- 2008.312.29
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Exhibition History
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Rome: Eternal City, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018
- Related Works
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