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Rear View of St. Peter's (Plate 7 of the Views of Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1748
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 54.9 x 82.3 cm (21 5/8 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 40.2 x 61.2 cm (15 13/16 x 24 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 40.2 x 61.2 cm (15 13/16 x 24 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25483
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 005, v/vii; Focillon 789; Robison 5(E)(of G); Ficacci 891
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)