G3050: View of the Colosseum, interior. Bird's-eye View.
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G3050
- People
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- View of the Colosseum, interior. Bird's-eye View.
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: Vedute di Roma
Original Language Title: Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1776
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/274588
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching on cream antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- image: 49.2 x 71 cm (19 3/8 x 27 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: etched in plate, lower right, below nine lines of text: Cav. Piranesi F.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- H. 126, F. 759
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G3050
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/09/2015 - 11/19/2015
Verification Level
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