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- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(Italian, 1720 – 1778) - Title
- Remains of a Room Belonging to the Praetorian Fort at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Avanzi di una Sala appartenente al Castro Pretorio nella Villa Adriana in Tivoli) from the series Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma)
- Date
- 1774
- Medium
- Etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- 17 1/2 x 22 5/8 in. Overall
- Credit
- Transfer from the Wisconsin Historical Society
- Accession No.
- 05.1.27
- Classification
- Prints
- Geography
- Italy
Related
before 1904, by descent to Mrs. Mary C. McLorg (Superior, WI); 1905, sold by Mary C. McLorg to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin [now the Wisconsin Historical Society] (Madison, WI); 1950, loaned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Art History; 1970, loan transferred to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 2001, Wisconsin Historical Society transferred to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings." San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994.
- Piranesi's Views of Rome: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2/26/2000–4/23/2000
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