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The Round Tower (Plate III of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1761
Medium/Technique
Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing
Dimensions
Sheet: 77.1 x 56.5 cm (30 3/8 x 22 1/4 in.)
Platemark: 54.9 x 41.7 cm (21 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 54.9 x 41.7 cm (21 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession Number21.11674
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 003, ii/iii; Focillon 26; Robison 30, v/vi (Second Edition, Fourth Issue through early printings of Fifth Edition, c. 1775-1835); Ficacci 112
State
v?
Provenance1921, gift of Miss Ellen Twistleton Bullard (b. 1865 - d. 1959), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 1, 1921)