- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2008.312.88
- People
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- Interior View of the Basilica of San Giovanni Laterano
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: Vedute di Roma
Original Language Title: Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Giovanni Laterano
Former Title: S. Giovanni in Laterano. Interior. - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1768
- Culture
- Italian
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- image: 42.7 × 67.3 cm (16 13/16 × 26 1/2 in.)
plate: 43.4 × 67.9 cm (17 1/16 × 26 3/4 in.)
sheet: 54.3 × 79.8 cm (21 3/8 × 31 7/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower right, graphite: H. 88
- inscription: lweor left, in plate: Veduta interna della Basilica / di S. Giovanni Laterano
- inscription: lower left, in plate: Cavalier Piranesi inc.
- Provenance
- Thomas Palmer, Esq., Boston, gift; to Harvard University, 1772, transferred; to Harvard Art Museums, 2008
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- ii(?)/v
- Standard Reference Number
- Hind 88; Wilton-Ely 221
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
- 2008.312.88
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Exhibition History
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Rome: Eternal City, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018
- Related Works
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