From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Cross-Section of the Interior of the Basilica of San Paolo fuori delle Mura

Identification and Creation

Object Number: G3057
People: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
Title: Cross-Section of the Interior of the Basilica of San Paolo fuori delle Mura
Other Titles: Former Title: View of St. Paul beyond the wall, interior
Series/Book Title: Vedute di Roma
Original Language Title: Spaccato interno della Basilica di S. Paolo fuori delle Mura
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1764
Culture: Italian

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Etching

Provenance

Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: vi/viii
Standard Reference Number: Hind 7; Focillon 792; Salamon D5; Wilton-Ely 138

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number: G3057
Division: European and American Art
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Exhibition History

Rome: Eternal City, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018

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