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Frontispiece for Parte Seconda

Giovanni Battista Piranesi1748

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States

  • Title: Frontispiece for Parte Seconda
  • Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
  • Date Created: 1748
  • Physical Dimensions: plate: 13 x 26.5 cm (5 1/8 x 10 7/16 in.) sheet: 37.2 x 52.8 cm (14 5/8 x 20 13/16 in.)
  • Provenance: (sale, Sotheby's London, 21 March 1972, lots 142 and 142, included in a two-volume bound copy of _Le Magnificenze di Roma_); (Herman Shickman Gallery, New York); (sale, Sotheby's New York, 1 November 2001, the volumes broken up and sold as individual sets, this lot 135); (Harris Schrank, New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.
  • Rights: CC0
  • Medium: etching on laid paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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