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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G3050
People
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
Title
View of the Colosseum, interior. Bird's-eye View.
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Vedute di Roma
Original Language Title: Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
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
  • inscription: etched in plate, lower right, below nine lines of text: Cav. Piranesi F.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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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