Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Requires Photography

The Temple of Bacchus, now the Church of St. Urban (Plate 60 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1758

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55.4 x 82 cm (21 13/16 x 32 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 40.8 x 62.3 cm (16 1/16 x 24 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25536
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 048, iv/v; Focillon 753; Robison 48(E)(of F); Ficacci 922
State iv
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 (c.1843-1884); 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)