Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Date: 1975 - 1979

Reference: Eph-D-GRAPHIC-ARTS-1975/1979

Description: Includes posters for: Art in the Mail; international exhibition of art-as-postal-activity, on the South Pacific tour: Australian leg. Organized by the Manawatu Art Gallery. Australian tour by the Australia Gallery Directors Council. [Two different posters, 1976 and 1979?] Aspects of Australian art [George Baldessin / Imants Tillers. According to Des Esseintes. 1976]. National Art Gallery, February 4 - March 26 [ca 1976-1980?] Auckland City Art Gallery. Festival exhibitions. Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson 7 March - 20 April; Three dimensional fibre; fibre as fine art. 11 March - 31 March [1975]. Fashions and follies. Auckland City Art Gallery. 25 November 1975-18 January 1976. The genius of Giovanni Battista Piranesi 1720-1778. 65 etchings from the collections of the Auckland City Art Gallery, Dr W S Auburn, National Gallery Wellington, Alexander Turnbull Library. 26 April - 5 June 1977 (2 copies) Charles Heaphy, V.C. exhibition, Alexander Turnbull Library. The Terrace, Oct-Nov. [1977]. Tony Fomison; a survey of his painting and drawing from 1961 to 1979. Dowse Art Gallery, October 15th to November 18th [1979]. Galerie Legard; Director Janne Land ( 44 Upland Road Kelburn, Wellington). Recent paintings Malcolm Benham. 7-24 August [1979]. (2 copies) Galerie Legard. Andrew Bogle, Paul Hartigan drawings. 28 Aug - 14 Sep 1979. Galerie Legard. Glenda Randerson paintings and lithographs. 25 Aug - 12 Sep [1979]. Galerie Legard. Hotere recent paintings. 5-24 November 1979. David Graham; an exhibition of paintings. McDougall Art Gallery 15 September to 14 October [1975]. Fernand Leger; an exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Auckland City Art Gallery, 6 September - 3 October 1976. (2 copies) Parihaka; a selection of paintings from the Parihaka series by Selwyn Muru. Dowse Art Gallery. 10 February - 7 March 1979. (2 copies) 6 x 4; Australian [and] New Zealand print makers. Waikato Art Museum October 22 - November 16. [1975]. (Shows "Waioeka 2" by Marilyn Webb). Robert McDougall Art Gallery. New Canterbury contemporaries. September 14 - October 10, 1979 (with inset portraits of artists Pauline Trengrove, Mark de la Mare, John Hurrell, Glenn Jowitt, Paul Johns, Murray Hedwig, Michael Ebel, Harvey Taylor, Michael Reed, Simon Allison, Bing Dawe, Graham Snowden, Neil Dawson, Peter Wolden, Bruce Robinson) Stephanie Sheehan: "Audience" 1975 (2 copies) Pictures. Taj Mahal Gallery. Aug 23-Sept 11 [1976?] Gustave Ferdinand von Tempsky; the man and the artist; an exhibition at Waikato Art Museum, 11 May - 4 June [1978]. (2 copies) Wellington Polytechnic; the 1979 Design School exhibitons "Gestalt". City Art Gallery, 24 November - 2 December 1979. Wilderness 5; an exhibition of works from nature in N.Z. ; Nancy Adams, Brian Enting, John Johns, Greig Royle, Susan Skerman. 8 June 1979. Quantity: 21 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 800 x 600 mm.

Date: 1759

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-011

Description: View of the Roman temple of Antonio and Faustina with its ancient columns enclosing the Baroque facade of the Church of Saint Lorenzo in Mirandi in the Forum, Rome Other Titles - View of the Temple of Antonio and Faustina (San Lorenzo in Mirandi) in the cow field (the Forum) [translation] Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 403 x 542 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 467 x 712 mm

Date: 1760 - 1765 - 1761 - 1785

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-032

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, stairways and round arches springing from a square column with lions' heads. Focillon 38 Robson number 41. State 5 or 6 (mid-1760s to ca 1835). The first state was 1760 or 1761. 'Pier with a lamp' is the popular English title for this work Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. Pier with a lamp Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 547 x 413 mm on sheet 745 x 545 mm

Date: 1750

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-070

Description: An imaginative reconstruction of the appearance of one of the oval racetracks of ancient Roman times with carved obselisks and colums along its central spine, a sourrounding walkway, other elaborately carved objects in the foreground, buildings on a nearby hill to the right, and a pyramid in the distance. Other Titles - View of one of the ancient circuses (race-tracks) with other monuments surrounding it [translation] Extended Title - From Opere varie di architettura, prospettive, grotteschi, antichita, 1750 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 132 x 197 mm (platemark) on sheet 292 x 384 mm

Date: 1750

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-005

Description: The Piazza del Popolo, Rome, looking east, with the Egyptian obelisk in the centre foreground, the twin churches divided by the Corso in the background. The square and the roads are mud and there are pedestrians and carriages of the era Other Titles - View of the Square of the People, Rome [translation] Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 402 x 450 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 467 x 712 mm

Date: 1778

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-044

Description: The title page to Piranesi's Views of Rome, in the form of a title carved on stone with urns and other objects decorating the foreground Other Titles - Views of Rome drawn and etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian architect Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778. Titlepage. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 408 x 544 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 466 x 713 mm

Date: 1772

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-036

Description: The arch of Septimus Severus in the middle ground of the Forum, Rome, with a column built by Caligula on the left, the baroque Church of S. Martina to the right Other Titles - The arch of Septimus Severus [translation] Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 410 x 454 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 465 x 710 mm

Date: 1530 - 1750

By: Bellori, Giovanni Pietro, 1615?-1696; Blondel, Georges Francois, 1730-; Dorigny, Nicholas, 1652-1746; Nolli, Giovanni Battista, 1692?-1756; Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778; Raphael Sanzio, 1483-1520; Rossi, Giovanni Antonio de', 1517-1575?; Rule, Percival Watts, 1889-1953

Reference: E-194-f

Description: Includes: Nuova pianta di Roma data in luce da Giambattista Nolli (30 engraved maps); Psyches et Amoris nuptiae ac fabula a Raphaele. Nicolao Dorigny ...delineata et incisa... 1693 (11 engravings); Vatican frescoes engraved by Ioannes Iacobus de Rubeis (21 engravings); sundry architectural engravings including a view of the front face of Siena Cathedral and details of its floor decorations, the Arena di Verona and two mezzotints of church interiors by G. F. Blondel No bookplate or inscriptions inside front cover. Lot number 520 glued inside front cover, bottom left Inscriptions: On spine, gold lettering on green leather: Maps of Rome &c. Piranesi's View [sic] of Rome. Raphael's frescos in the Little Farnesi. Julio Romano's frescis [sic] in the Vatican. Church of Siena pavement. Amphitheatre of Verona. Four churches by Blondel. Quantity: 61 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, b&w in album (61 leaves ; 720 x 500 mm), 1/2 brown and green calf, grey-green marbled boards Transfers: Two mezzotints by Blondel, now at C-111-062 and C-111-063 were bound into this volume on accession into the Library - - The Piranesi etchings located at C-091-001/075 were originally bound into this album, between the pages currently hand-numbered as 35 and 36. The stubs of their former location are visible in the gutter of the volume.

Date: 1743

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-059

Description: Water and a palm tree in the foreground with the remains of colums and pedestals, a large carved funerary urn with the name Marcus Agrippa at its base, and the circular peristyle of a temple in the background Focillon 5 Other Titles - Remains of ancient edifices amongst which can be seen the funeral urn made of a single piece of porphyry for Marcus Aggripa, which today serves as the urn for Pope Clement XII. Part of an obelisk with Egyptian characters can also be seen, and in the background, the vestibule of an ancient ruined temple [translation] Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 387 x 239 mm on sheet 547 x 384 mm

Date: 1760 - 1761

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-020

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, stairways, arches and a perspective of colonnades with zig-zag staircases. Focillon 37 Robison (1986) catalogue number 40. State iv. Early to mid 1760s Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The Gothic arch. Early to mid-1760s Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 412 x 543 mm on sheet 545 x 745 mm

Date: 1760 - 1762 - 1761 - 1775

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-025

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with a series of round arches rising to the right above bas-relief carvings of two lions in the foreground, and a carving of a bound prisoner with guards to the left Focillon 28 Robison catalogue number 44, state 2, early 1760s-ca 1835. Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The lion bas-relief Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 563 x 414 mm on sheet 745 x 545 mm

Date: 1743

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-050

Description: An imaginative reconstruction of the interior of an ancient Roman temple with its altar in the centre distance Focillon 12 Other Titles - Vestibule of an ancient temple, by which one entered the cella, through which one continued to the interior with three main naves. In the distance can be seen the large chapel where the principal altar for sacrifices is situated. [translation] Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 260 x 349 mm on sheet 383 x 535 mm

Date: 1760 - 1764 - 1761 - 1780

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-024

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, stairways, pulleys and a series of galleries with round arches. A ladder runs from floor level to a high point on the left Focillon 34 Robison catalogue number 37, state 5 or 6 (mid-1770s-ca 1835). Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The arch with a shell ornament Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 404 x 546 mm on sheet 545 x 745 mm

Date: 1760 - 1765 - 1761 - 1774

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-030

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, pulleys, platforms, (one with prisoners), stairways and round arches in a vast gallery Focillon 33 Robison catalogue number 36, state 4 or 5, mid-1760s to early 1770s. First state was 1760 or 1761. 'Prisoners on a projecting platform' is the popular English title for this work. Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. Prisoners on a projecting platform Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 412 x 543 mm on sheet 545 x 745 mm

Date: 1743

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-054

Description: An imaginative reconstruction of the interior of an ancient Roman building with short flights of stairs between clusters of columns and arches and the theatrical rotunda in the background Focillon 10 Other Titles - Group of staircases adorned with magnificent architecture, arranged so that they lead to various levels, and in particular to a rotunda which serves for theatrical representations [translation] Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 260 x 349 mm on sheet 383 x 535 mm

Date: 1743

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-058

Description: The remains of arches, columns, carved tombs, etc with a stream of water emerging from a hole in a wall in the background Focillon 6 Other Titles - Ruins of ancient tombs placed in front of other ruins of a more ancient aquaduct ; above its arches can be seen the canal through which water flowed into Rome. [translation] Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 388 x 243 mm on sheet 547 x 384 mm

Date: 1743

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-064

Description: An imaginative reconstruction of the interior of the temple of the Vestal Virgins with its altar and eternal flame inside a rotunda with colums on the left. A semi-circular staircase rises towards the altar on the right. Focillon 17 Other Titles - Ancient temple devised and drawn in the manner of those which used to be built in honour of the Goddess Vesta; in the centre can be seen the great altar upon which the Vestal Virgins kept the sacred flame burning for ever. [Partial translation] Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 397 x 253 mm on sheet 542 x 384 mm

Date: 1760 - 1763 - 1761 - 1773

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-028

Description: The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, stairways and round arches above a line of smaller, lower arches with bars. Ladders and a sawhorse to the right Focillon 34 Robison catalogue number 38, state 4, early 1760s to early 1770s. Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The sawhorse. Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 412 x 552 mm on sheet 545 x 745 mm

Date: 1750

Reference: Curios-010-007

Description: Hair removed from the ink of title page, and possibly from the head of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: White hair approximately 40 mm Transfers: The title page is housed at C-091-056..

Date: 1750

From: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]

By: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Reference: C-091-015

Description: Broken remains of ancient Roman columns, statues and other architectural features, with snakes writhing through the foreground, a funeral monument to the left, and Roman pines and cypresses in the background Focillon 22. Commonly known as The tomb of Nero. 3rd state, printed between 1760 and ca 1770 Other Titles - The tomb of Nero. 3rd state. 1760-ca 1770 Extended Title - From Opere varie di architettura, prospettive, grotteschi, antichita, 1750 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 386 x 542 mm on sheet 542 x 747 mm