Giovanni PIRANESI Veduta Roma “Ponte Lugano" 1763 Original Etching FIRST STATE

Description: Veduta del Ponte Lugano su l'Anione from the series "Views of Rome" 1763 Hind 68 i/iv. Lifetime impression. Signed on plate on lower right margin "Piranesi F." Original title is etched on the lower right margin: "Veduta del Ponte Lugano su l'Anione nella via Tiburtina risarcito ne' tempi bassi A Sepolcro della famiglia Plauzia" (The Ponte Lucano, with the Tomb of the Plautii) According to Hind, this this is the first state of IV. With the address and price on the lower left margin ("Si vende presso l'Autore a paoli due e mezzo"). The second state has the price removed. Printed on laid paper with indeterminate watermark, and centerfold. With wide (full) margins. Mounted with archival tape to backing board and matting. Probably needs to be remounted in a new mat window. Provenance: from the estate of the painter Philip Pearlstein. Another impression of this print in the first state is selling for 5,400 euros online. Plate: 17 3/4 x 25 7/8 inches The Vedute di Roma The 135 large double folio sized plates of the Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome), which had immediate and continuing success, were etched by Piranesi from the later 1740’s until the end of his life. The plates produced up to 1760 were first published by Bouchard e Gravier; those post 1760 were published in his lifetime by Piranesi himself, from the Palazzo Tomati. Piranesi very rarely dated his etchings. Up to 1764/65 he signed the plates Piranesi fecit. From 1766, after he was knighted by the Pope, Clement XIII, he signed Cavaliere Piranesi. Ponte Lucano is the ancient Roman stone bridge over the river Aniene, on the Via Tiburtina, in the province of Rome.A few years later Piranesi etched a close up view of the base of the circular mausoleum of the Plautii at the end of the bridge.

Price: 1250 USD

Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-11-02T18:46:42.000Z

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