2008.312.78: View of the Interior of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2008.312.78
- People
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- View of the Interior of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: Vedute di Roma
Original Language Title: Veduta dell'interno dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo
Former Title: The Colosseum: Interior - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1766
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/234353
Location
- Location
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Level 2, Room 2240, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Arts in the Eighteenth–Century Atlantic World
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Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
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image: 45.1 × 69 cm (17 3/4 × 27 3/16 in.)
plate: 45.8 × 69.8 cm (18 1/16 × 27 1/2 in.)
sheet: 53.9 × 78.8 cm (21 1/4 × 31 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower right, graphite: H. 78
- inscription: lower left, in plate: Veduta dell' interno dell' Anfiteatro Flavio . detto il Colosseo
- inscription: lower right, in plate: Cav.r Piranesi fece
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Thomas Palmer, Esq., Boston, gift; to Harvard University, 1772, transferred; to Harvard Art Museums, 2008
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- iii(?)/iv
- Standard Reference Number
- Hind 78; Wilton-Ely 211
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Permanent transfer from the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, Gift of Thomas Palmer, Esq., of Boston, 1772
- Accession Year
- 2008
- Object Number
- 2008.312.78
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2240 18th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/05/2025 - 10/27/2025
- Rome: Eternal City, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018
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