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Interior of S. Costanza (Plate 21 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1756

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55.2 x 82.2 cm (21 3/4 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 41.9 x 55.3 cm (16 1/2 x 21 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25497
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 037, iv/vi; Focillon 811; Robison 37(D)(of F); Ficacci 896
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)