Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Veduta del Ponte Salario circa 1751/1753
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Veduta del Ponte Salario, circa 1751/1753, a classical eighteenth‑century engraving of architecture, signed in the plate, 52 × 70 cm, origin Italy, in good condition, dated 1752.
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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Title of work: Veduta del Ponte Salario (View of the Salario Bridge)
Series: Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Technique: Original etching on antique laid paper
Period / Date of creation: Original Roman print edition, made during the artist’s lifetime between 1751 and 1778.
Technical characteristics & States:
• First state (Original Roman state): Exceptional presence of the full address engraved on the plate: “Presso l’autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de’monti. A paoli due e mezzo.” (This price inscription in papal currency and the Roman address were definitively erased in the posthumous nineteenth-century Paris editions.)
• Signatures & Inscriptions: Signed on the plate at bottom left “Gio. Batta Piranesi F.”. Title centered and legend numbered 1 to 9 detailed in Italian at the bottom of the illustration.
• Plate size (copper): 42 x 62 cm (dimensions in line with the master’s original plates).
• Full sheet dimensions: 52 x 70 cm.
The work is printed on superb antique rag paper, thick and textured to the touch. Artisanally structured with verges and pontuses visible across the sheet by transparency. No watermark visible (common on sheets cut in copper plates). The sheet is sound and not mounted, thus preserving its original purity.
The print fortunately retains its large original margins of about 5 cm around the periphery. The plate impression is perfectly intact and very well defined in the paper.
Copy in good overall condition for an work over 250 years old. Presence of old foxing (oxidation/humidity stains) embedded in the paper and visible by transparency, but today fully stabilized. Some slight natural creases and a central crease with handling marks along the outer edges of the white margins, with no impact on the engraved area.
Central crease, stabilized humidity stains in the lower margin and on the right, edges damaged on the left.
Sheet not mounted, not framed.
Inking is contrasted and the blacks show good depth.
References: Focillon 744; Hind 31; Wilton-Ely 180.
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Title of work: Veduta del Ponte Salario (View of the Salario Bridge)
Series: Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Technique: Original etching on antique laid paper
Period / Date of creation: Original Roman print edition, made during the artist’s lifetime between 1751 and 1778.
Technical characteristics & States:
• First state (Original Roman state): Exceptional presence of the full address engraved on the plate: “Presso l’autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de’monti. A paoli due e mezzo.” (This price inscription in papal currency and the Roman address were definitively erased in the posthumous nineteenth-century Paris editions.)
• Signatures & Inscriptions: Signed on the plate at bottom left “Gio. Batta Piranesi F.”. Title centered and legend numbered 1 to 9 detailed in Italian at the bottom of the illustration.
• Plate size (copper): 42 x 62 cm (dimensions in line with the master’s original plates).
• Full sheet dimensions: 52 x 70 cm.
The work is printed on superb antique rag paper, thick and textured to the touch. Artisanally structured with verges and pontuses visible across the sheet by transparency. No watermark visible (common on sheets cut in copper plates). The sheet is sound and not mounted, thus preserving its original purity.
The print fortunately retains its large original margins of about 5 cm around the periphery. The plate impression is perfectly intact and very well defined in the paper.
Copy in good overall condition for an work over 250 years old. Presence of old foxing (oxidation/humidity stains) embedded in the paper and visible by transparency, but today fully stabilized. Some slight natural creases and a central crease with handling marks along the outer edges of the white margins, with no impact on the engraved area.
Central crease, stabilized humidity stains in the lower margin and on the right, edges damaged on the left.
Sheet not mounted, not framed.
Inking is contrasted and the blacks show good depth.
References: Focillon 744; Hind 31; Wilton-Ely 180.
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Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Title of artwork
Veduta del Ponte Salario circa 1751/1753
Technique
Etching
Signature
Plate signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
1752
Condition
Good condition
Height
52 cm
Width
70 cm
Depiction/theme
Architecture
Style
Classical
Sold with frame
No
Period
18th century
