Interior of St. Peter's with the Baldacchino (Plate 5 of the Views of Rome)

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Interior of St. Peter's with the Baldacchino (Plate 5 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)

1748

Medium/Technique Etching

Dimensions Sheet: 54.9 x 82.1 cm (21 5/8 x 32 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 41.2 x 60.3 cm (16 1/4 x 23 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection

Accession NumberM25481

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 004, iv/vi; Focillon 788; Ficacci 875

Marks Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282); verso, 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)