- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- G3049
- People
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- View of the Flavian Amphitheater Called the Colosseum
- Other Titles
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Former Title: The Colosseum
Original Language Title: Veduta dell'Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo
Series/Book Title: Vedute di Roma - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1757
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/279742
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Etching
- Provenance
- Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- ii/v
- Standard Reference Number
- Hind 57; F. 758; Salamon D58; Wilton-Ely 191
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G3049
- 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
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