Two Bronze Lamps and Two Views of a Cinerary Vase (Plate 7 of the Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi...)(two separate plates printed on the same sheet)

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Two Bronze Lamps and Two Views of a Cinerary Vase (Plate 7 of the Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi...)(two separate plates printed on the same sheet)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)

1768-1778

Medium/Technique Etchings, two separate plates printed on the same sheet

Dimensions Sheet: 54.8 x 82.3 cm (21 9/16 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark (Bronze Lamps): 38.9 x 28.1 cm (15 5/16 x 11 1/16 in.)
Platemark (Cinerary Vase): 39.2 x 25.5 cm (15 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection

Accession NumberM25614.7

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind, p. 87, 1778; Focillon 608, 607; Ficacci 740, 739

Marks Verso, upper left-center, lower left-center, and upper right-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282); verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (not in Lugt)

ProvenanceAlfred Greenough, Boston (1844-1884); by bequest to his uncle, Charles Henry Parker, Boston (1816-1908); his bequest to the MFA 1909 (transferred from library; accession date January 1, 1913)