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The Arch of Titus (Plate 90 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1760

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55.4 x 82.4 cm (21 13/16 x 32 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 41 x 62.4 cm (16 1/8 x 24 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25566
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 055, iii/v; Focillon 756; Robison 55(F)(of H); Ficacci 923
State iii
Marks Verso, right 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)