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Giovanni Battista Piranesi: English: Book, Frontispiece, with Dedication to Robert Adam, in Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma, 1762   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi  (1720–1778)  wikidata:Q316307 s:it:Autore:Giovanni Battista Piranesi q:it:Giovanni Battista Piranesi
 
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Description Italian printmaker, architect and engraver
Date of birth/death 4 October 1720 Edit this at Wikidata 9 November 1778 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Mogliano Veneto, Republic of Venice Rome, Papal States
Work period 1740 Edit this at Wikidata–1778 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q316307
Title
English: Book, Frontispiece, with Dedication to Robert Adam, in Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma, 1762
Description
English: Frontispiece depicts large stone slab that has been inscribed with book’s title. Below, ruined column, upon which is a dedication inscription, and its capital.
Date 1762
date QS:P571,+1762-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium etching with engraving, original covers of blue board on cream laid paper
Dimensions

Volume (cover dimensions): 58.1 x 43.5 cm (22 7/8 x 17 1/8 in.) Sheet: 57 x 42 cm (22 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.)

Platemark: 51.8 x 34.8 cm (20 3/8 x 13 11/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1956-15-1
Notes
  • Type: book
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in plate, on stone slab: IOANNIS / BAPTISTAE / PIRANESII / ANTIQVAR / ORVM / REGIAE . SOCIETATIS / LONDINENSIS / SO CII / CAMPVS MARTIVS / ANTQVAE / VRBIS / ROMAE . MDCCLXII ; on column: ROBERT / ADAMS / BRITANN[...] / [...] EBER RIM [...]; lower margin: Veneunt apud Auctorem in aedibus Comitis Thomati via Felici prope templum SS. Trinitatis in Monte Pincio.
  • Country: Italy
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