IMAGE
Polanzani, Francesco, 1700-1783 :Jo. Bap. Piranesi Veneti architectus. F. Polanzani faciebat. 1750. Super permissu.
- Date
- 1750
- By
- Polanzani, Francesco, 1700-1783
- Reference
- C-091-001
- Description
Head and shoulders three-quarters frontal portrait of artist and architect, G. B. Piranesi aged 30, against a background of swirling clouds, with a book and leaves above a title chiselled in stone
Other Titles - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Venetian architect [translation]
Extended Title - From Le vedute di Roma, 1745-1778 (frontispiece)
Bookplate glued to verso, in centre, has Latin motto Festina lente, and shows a dove surmounting a cloak, the upper part of a suit of armour, and a slanting shield with three scallop shells and two double sets of bars running horizontally.
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Etching, 383 x 283 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 501 x 357 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- 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]
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Etchings, Portraits, Etching, 383 x 283 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 501 x 357 mm, Material: Paper is a much smaller sheet than the remainder of the group, and is a lighter weight., Watermark: Watermark possibly Robison (1986) number 5, ca 1748-1760.
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Polanzani, Francesco, 1700-1783. Polanzani, Francesco, 1700-1783 :Jo. Bap. Piranesi Veneti architectus. F. Polanzani faciebat. 1750. Super permissu.. 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]. Ref: C-091-001. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23025372More information can be found in our terms of use.
Copyright
UnknownArtist unknown :Festina lente [ca 1850?]
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: Rawlinson, Walter (Sir), 1735-1805
Reference: C-091-001-1
Description: A bookplate showing a dove surmounting a cloak, the upper part of a suit of armour, a slanting shield with three scallop shells and two double sets of bars, running horizontally. The plate has the Latin motto Festina lente On the verso of Polanzani's portrait of artist G B Piranesi (C-091-001) The bookplate of Sir Walter Rawlinson Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 75 x 61 mm glued to sheet 501 x 357 mm