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Capitals and Friezes from Various Buildings in Rome, Compared with a Detail by Le Roy
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1761
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 58.3 x 153.2 cm (22 15/16 x 60 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 41.2 x 123.3 cm (16 1/4 x 48 9/16 in.)
Platemark: 41.2 x 123.3 cm (16 1/4 x 48 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. W. J. Moore
Accession Number1972.339
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind, pp.84-85 (1761); not listed in Focillon; Wilton-Ely 777
State
i
Marks
Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceMrs. W. J. Moore, Lowell, Massachusetts; her gift to the MFA April 12, 1972