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The Basilica and Piazza of St. Peter's (Plate 2 of the Views of Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1775
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 55 x 82.1 cm (21 5/8 x 32 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 47.9 x 71.5 cm (18 7/8 x 28 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 47.9 x 71.5 cm (18 7/8 x 28 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession NumberM25478
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 120, i/iii; Focillon 720; Ficacci 991
State
i
Marks
Verso, left center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282); verso, right 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 (1816-1908); his bequest to the MFA January 1, 1913 (Transferred from library)