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Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura Egizia, Etrusca, e Greca con un Ragionamento Apologetico in defesa dell'Architettura Egizia, e Toscana, plate 54
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
Italian
1769
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 25 × 38.2 cm (9 13/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 37.3 × 52.9 cm (14 11/16 × 20 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 37.3 × 52.9 cm (14 11/16 × 20 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow Fund
Accession Number2020.235
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Signed
Lower left, in plate: Cavalier Piranesi inv e scolp
InscriptionsLower left, in plate: Cavalier Piranesi inv e scolp
Lower right, in plate: 54
Lower right, in graphite: 192 [circled] Rome edn
Lower right, in plate: 54
Lower right, in graphite: 192 [circled] Rome edn
Provenance1986, probably sold by Goodspeed’s Book Shop, Boston, to Barbara Stern Shapiro (b. 1929 – d. 2019), New York [see note]; January 29, 2020, Barbara Stern Shapiro Estate sale, Black Rock Galleries, Bridgeport, CT, lot 50, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 17, 2020)
NOTE: Barbara Stern Shapiro was a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the departments of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Contemporary Art, as well as the Development Department, from about 1970 until 2003. She received the title Curator Emerita upon her retirement in 2003. She probably acquired this print from Goodspeed’s Book Shop at the same time that the MFA acquired four other prints from the “Diverse Maniere” series by Piranesi (1986.37-40).
NOTE: Barbara Stern Shapiro was a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the departments of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Contemporary Art, as well as the Development Department, from about 1970 until 2003. She received the title Curator Emerita upon her retirement in 2003. She probably acquired this print from Goodspeed’s Book Shop at the same time that the MFA acquired four other prints from the “Diverse Maniere” series by Piranesi (1986.37-40).