Details
| Artist | Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720-1778 |
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| Date | 1756 |
| Medium | etching printed in black ink on laid paper |
| Dimensions | Plate: 15 3/4 × 23 1/2 inches (40 × 59.7 cm) Sheet: 17 3/4 × 25 5/8 inches (45.1 × 65.1 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps |
| Accession Number | 09.1S865 |
| Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
| On View | European: Grand Tour of Italy-Rome, Level 2 (see map) |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Inscriptions | Inscribed, titled in plate, lower center: Vedute del Tempio di Giove Tonante Bottom left margin: [five lines of text] Bottom right margin: [three lines of text] Bottom right edge: Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinita de monti. A paoli due e mezzo. Lower right corner: Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc. |
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Provenance
November 1886, Leavitt Sale.
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Piranesi's Views of Rome. Exh. cat., University of Michigan-Dearborn. Dearborn, 1986, no. 5, p. 31 (ill.).
