St. Paul Outside the Walls (Plate 8 of the Views of Rome)

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St. Paul Outside the Walls (Plate 8 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)

1748

Medium/Technique Etching

Dimensions Sheet: 55.1 x 82.2 cm (21 11/16 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 40.8 x 62.2 cm (16 1/16 x 24 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection

Accession NumberM25484

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 006, v/vii; Focillon 723; Ficacci 909

State v

Marks Verso, right center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282); verso, right center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (not in Lugt)

ProvenanceAlfred Greenough, Boston (c.1843-1884); by bequest to his uncle, Charles Henry Parker (1816-1908); his bequest to the MFA January 1, 1913 (Transferred from library)