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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]
- Date
- 1743 - 1774 - 1745 - 1778
- By
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778; Rule, Percival Watts, 1889-1953; Rawlinson, Walter (Sir), 1735-1805
- Reference
- C-091-001/075
- Description
Views of Roman antiquities, imaginary buildings in ancient Roman style, prisons, etc.
See shelf list and individual records for details, also Ross Fraser's 'Etchings of Piranesi; Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720 to 1778: seventy seven etchings'. Auckland City Art Gallery. July 1963. (Exhibition catalogue, principally of this collection)
Focillon followed by a number in the individual records for these etchings refers to H. Focillon. 'G. B. Piranesi. Essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre'. Paris, 1918.
According to Piranesi: early architectural fantasies, a catalogue raisonne (1986) by Andrew Robison the Carceri group within this group (numbers C-091-019 to -026 and -028 to 032) are likely to be 2nd edition, 3rd issue, mid 1760s to early 1770s. Other similar collections are at the Beinecke, Chicago, Soane and Princeton Art Museums. These show watermark number 36 throughout; the states of the various prints also match the description in Robison, p. 140.
The Carceri set is incomplete. Missing are Plates 3, 4,and 6. The set may have been incomplete when they were acquired by the previous owner, Percival Watts Rule
Quantity: 75 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Etchings b&w, 200 x 140 mm to 600 x 450 mm
Provenance: The Piranesi etchings were earlier in the collection of Sir Walter Rawlinson, whose bookplate appears on the verso of C-091-001. See Maskill, David and Mathew Norman. Paper visions: the Piranesi collection at the Alexander Turnbull Library. Turnbull Library Record, Vol 41, 2008, p. 60-81
Transfers: D-034-001 (Formerly C-091-002) and D-034-002 (Formerly C-091-048).
Processing information: On accession into the Library in 1953 the Carceri group was bound into the album E-194-f. Disbound by the Library, 1950s or early 1960s? The remainder were in a 'disbound' folio, whose covers have not survived.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Many photographed in black and white, with colour transparencies of some items
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 75 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Etchings, Etchings b&w, 200 x 140 mm to 600 x 450 mm
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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Veduta del tempio di Antonio e Faustina in Camp...
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
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Carceri invenzione]. Piranesi F[ecit]. [Plate ...
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
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Veduta d'uno de'circhi antichi con altri monume...
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
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Veduta della Piazza del Popolo [1750]
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
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Vedute di Roma disegnate ed incise da Giambatti...
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
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Arco di Settimio Severo. Piranesi Architetto fe...
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
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Vestigi d'antichi edifici, fra i quali evvi l'u...
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
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Carceri invenzione]. [Plate 14, 2nd or 3rd sta...
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
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Carceri invenzione]. Piranesi F[ecit]. [Plate ...
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
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Vestibolo d'antico tempio, oltre il quale s'ent...
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