Interior View of the Temple of Neptune (Plate XII of the Views of Paestum)

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Interior View of the Temple of Neptune (Plate XII of the Views of Paestum)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
and: Francesco Piranesi (Italian, 1758–1810)

1778

Medium/Technique Etching

Dimensions Sheet: 48.7 x 68.6 cm (19 3/16 x 27 in.)(with 1-3 mm margin at the top; trimmed on or slightly within the platemark on the other three sides)

Credit Line Bequest from Charles Henry Parker

Accession Number09.646

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind, p. 87; Focillon 594 (an impression before the number at the top right, the signature at the bottom right mentioned by Focillon, and the inscription in the lower margin); Ficacci 863

State i

Marks Verso, left center and right center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

ProvenanceCharles Henry Parker (1816-1908); his bequest to the MFA 1909 (transferred from Library Book 11545; accessioned March 20, 1963)