About the Artwork
The Temple of Vespasian
1756
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Italian
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 15 3/4 × 23 1/2 inches (40 × 59.7 cm) Sheet: 17 3/4 × 25 5/8 inches (45.1 × 65.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S865
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, titled in plate, lower center: Vedute del Tempio di Giove Tonante Bottom left margin: [five lines of text] Bottom right margin: [three lines of text] Bottom right edge: Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinita de monti. A paoli due e mezzo. Lower right corner: Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc.
Provenance
November 1886, Leavitt Sale. 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Piranesi's Views of Rome. Exh. cat., University of Michigan-Dearborn. Dearborn, 1986, no. 5, p. 31 (ill.).
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Temple of Vespasian, 1756, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S865.
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