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The Piazza and Basilica of St. Peter's (Plate 4 of the Views of Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1772
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 55 x 82.1 cm (21 5/8 x 32 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 46.7 x 70.6 cm (18 3/8 x 27 13/16 in.)
Platemark: 46.7 x 70.6 cm (18 3/8 x 27 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25480
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 101, i/iii; Focillon 721; Ficacci 972
State
i
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
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)