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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R8377
People
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
Title
The remaining part of the porticoes and vaults which supported the banks of seating in the so-called Circus Agonalis or Circus of Alexander Severus
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma
Original Language Title: Pars residua porticuum, et concamerationum...
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/250212

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
image: 20 × 40.1 cm (7 7/8 × 15 13/16 in.)
plate: 21.6 × 40.4 cm (8 1/2 × 15 7/8 in.)
other: 21.6 × 40.5 cm (8 1/2 × 15 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Wilton-Ely 598

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R8377
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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