Interior View of the Temple of Neptune (Plate XII of the Views of Paestum)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)

1778

Medium/TechniqueEtching

DimensionsSheet: 48.7 x 68.6 cm (19 3/16 x 27 in.)(with 1-3 mm margin at the top; trimmed on or slightly within the platemark on the other three sides)

Credit LineBequest from Charles Henry Parker

Accession number09.646

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ClassificationsPrints

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ProvenanceCharles Henry Parker (1816-1908); his bequest to the MFA 1909 (transferred from Library Book 11545; accessioned March 20, 1963)

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