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The Villa d' Este, Tivoli (Plate 46 of the Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1773

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 55.2 x 82.3 cm (21 3/4 x 32 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 46.9 x 70.8 cm (18 7/16 x 27 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25522
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 105, i/iii; Focillon 826; Ficacci 976
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)