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- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(Italian, 1720 – 1778) - Title
- Remains of the Ancient City Walls A. of Paestum (Vue de ce qui reste encore des Murs A. de l'ancienne Ville de Pesto) from the series Different views of Pesto or Posidonia (Différentes vues de Pesto autrement Posidinia)
- Date
- 1763
- Medium
- Etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- 16 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. Overall
- Credit
- Gift of John C. Hawley in memory of Mary Oakley Hawley
- Accession No.
- 52.6.69
- Classification
- Prints
- Geography
- Italy
Related
Mary Oakley Hawley (Madison, WI); by 1952, John C. Hawley [husband of Mary Oakley Hawley] (Madison, WI/Delray Beach, FL) gifted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transfer to the Elvehjem Art Center [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
- Art of Piranesi, The: Art History Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 11/4/1976–12/10/1976
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