Advanced Search
Requires Photography
Marble Vase Decorated with Egyptian Motifs (Plate 17 of the Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi...)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1768-1778
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 82.3 x 55.3 cm (32 3/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 67.3 x 42.4 cm (26 1/2 x 16 11/16 in.)
Platemark: 67.3 x 42.4 cm (26 1/2 x 16 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25614.17
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind, p. 87, 1778; Focillon 616; Ficacci 748
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282); verso, right 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)