Accession number
PML 76270-71
Creator
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Published
Romae : Veneunt apud auctorem in aedibus Comitis Thomati via Felici prope templum SS. Trinitatis in Monte Pincio, 1762.
Credit line
Gift of Paul Mellon; 1979.
Notes
1st ed.
Latin and Italian on facing pages.
Title page in Italian: Il Campo Marzio dell' antica Roma / opera di G.B. Piranesi ...
Dedicated to Robert Adam.
Plates V-X are prepared to be joined as single ill.
Most of the plates and t.p. are signed: F. Piranesi. Plate XXXI etched by Arnold Westerhout after Francesco Fontana.
Watermarks on many plates are not visible; watermarks on some plates e.g. I, XI, XXXVII are Robison no. 57, which indicates that they were produced between the mid-1770s and 1790s.
Title pages included in pagination.
PML copy: bound in 2 v. Vol. 1: Latin t.p. + text; vol. 2: Italian t.p. + plates. Plates V & X, VI & IX, VII & VIII are pasted together as single folded plates and bound in sequence (are not assembled to form a plan of the Campus Martius).
Mellon no.: T177.56 v. I-II.
Latin and Italian on facing pages.
Title page in Italian: Il Campo Marzio dell' antica Roma / opera di G.B. Piranesi ...
Dedicated to Robert Adam.
Plates V-X are prepared to be joined as single ill.
Most of the plates and t.p. are signed: F. Piranesi. Plate XXXI etched by Arnold Westerhout after Francesco Fontana.
Watermarks on many plates are not visible; watermarks on some plates e.g. I, XI, XXXVII are Robison no. 57, which indicates that they were produced between the mid-1770s and 1790s.
Title pages included in pagination.
PML copy: bound in 2 v. Vol. 1: Latin t.p. + text; vol. 2: Italian t.p. + plates. Plates V & X, VI & IX, VII & VIII are pasted together as single folded plates and bound in sequence (are not assembled to form a plan of the Campus Martius).
Mellon no.: T177.56 v. I-II.
Description
[12], 69, [1], XII, xvii p., XLVII, [1] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (etchings), maps, plans ; 56 cm
Provenance
Gustav Bonde (inscription), Säfstaholms bibliothek (bookplate), Paul Mellon (bookplate).
Binding
1/2 calf, with initials GTB (Gustav ... Bonde ?) on spine; grey boards.
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