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The Grand Piazza (Plate IV of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1749–50
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 72 x 52.5 cm (28 3/8 x 20 11/16 in.)
Platemark: 54.5 x 41.2 cm (21 7/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
Platemark: 54.5 x 41.2 cm (21 7/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund
Accession NumberM25421
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 004, i/iii; Focillon 27; Robison 31, i/vi (First Edition, First through Third Issues, 1749-1760); Ficacci 113
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)