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The Cella of the Temple of Neptune (Plate XV of the Views of Paestum)

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

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 51.2 x 74.9 cm (20 3/16 x 29 1/2 in.)(trimmed c. 8 mm inside the top platemark; with margins of 33 mm at the left, 29 mm at the right, and 21 mm at the bottom)
Credit Line Bequest from Charles Henry Parker
Accession Number09.648
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind, p.87; Focillon 597[a]; Ficacci 866 (a proof impression before the inscription and the signature in the blank space at the bottom center)
State I
Marks Verso, left center and right center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceCharles Henry Parker, Boston (1816-1908); his bequest to the MFA 1909 (transferred from Library Book 11545; accessioned March 20, 1963)