Giovanni Piranesi Restrike Etching "Veduta della Gran Curia Innocenziana"

Item Details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720 – 1778)
Veduta della gran Curia Innocenziana edificata suite r ovine dell’ Anfiteatro di Statiho Tauro, cheformano Fodierno Monte Citorio, circa 1752
Restrike etching on laid paper
Signed in plate to lower left
From the series Views of Rome
Manufacturer’s sticker to frame verso
Frame is made by Kulicke. Robert Moore Kulicke (1924 – December 14, 2007) was an American artist, frame maker, and teacher. Though most influential for modernizing the design of picture frames, he was also a noted painter of small and delicate still lifes, as well as a jewellery maker credited with reviving the ancient goldsmithing technique of granulation.

Literature
Hind, Arthur Mayger. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study, with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome, page 45, figure 23.

Condition

- notable toning, foxing, and discolorations to sheet; patched repairs to sheet; separating frame joints; other signs of wear.

Dimensions

- measures frame; plate measures 24.63" W x 16" H.

• Item not examined outside of mounting.

Item #

ITMGP71045