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The Round Tower (Plate III of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1749–50

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 71.7 x 52.4 cm (28 1/4 x 20 5/8 in.)
Platemark: 54.5 x 41.3 cm (21 7/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund
Accession NumberM25420
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 003, i/iii; Focillon 26; Robison 30, i/vi (First Edition, First through Third Issues, 1749-1760); Ficacci 112
State i
Marks Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1914, sold by Mrs. A. M. B. Smith, London, to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1914)