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The Pyramid of Caius Cestius, with the Porta S. Paolo (Plate 110 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1755

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55.3 x 82.3 cm (21 3/4 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 41.1 x 55.2 cm (16 3/16 x 21 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25587
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 035, iv/vi; Focillon 810; Robison 35(F)(of H); Ficacci 884
Marks Verso, upper left-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)