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Views of Rome. 75. The Waterfall at Tivoli; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Views of Rome. 75. The Waterfall at Tivoli
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1765
Accession Number: 1969/2.67
Medium and Support: etching on paper

Views of Rome. 129. S. Maria Degli Angeli. Interior. Formerly the Central Hall o; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Views of Rome. 129. S. Maria Degli Angeli. Interior. Formerly the Central Hall o
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1776
Accession Number: 1972/2.47
Medium and Support: etching on paper

Iscrizione del Mausole della Famiglia de' Plauzi a Ponte Lugano (XI of t. III, L; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Iscrizione del Mausole della Famiglia de' Plauzi a Ponte Lugano (XI of t. III, L
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1756?
Accession Number: 1974/2.45
Medium and Support: etching on paper

Second frontispiece for Volume II of 'Le antichita romane e d'Italia'; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Second frontispiece for Volume II of 'Le antichita romane e d'Italia'
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1756
Accession Number: 1978/2.143
Medium and Support: etching on paper

Views of Rome. 51. Colonna Trajana; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Views of Rome. 51. Colonna Trajana
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1720-1778
Accession Number: 1980/1.217
Medium and Support: etching on paper

Studi dalle pitture etrusche di Corneto, plate from 'Della introduzione e del pr; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Studi dalle pitture etrusche di Corneto, plate from 'Della introduzione e del pr
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1765
Accession Number: 1985/2.132
Medium and Support: engraving on paper

Friezes, Soffits and Columns, from 'Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto'; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Friezes, Soffits and Columns, from 'Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto'
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1753
Accession Number: 1985/2.133
Medium and Support: engraving with etching on paper

The Gothic Arch, from the 'Carceri'; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: The Gothic Arch, from the 'Carceri'
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1750
Accession Number: 1992/1.123
Medium and Support: etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano (outlet of Lake Albano), Tav. VII,; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano (outlet of Lake Albano), Tav. VII,
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1762
Accession Number: 1964/1.127
Medium and Support: etching on two sheets of paper

Views of Rome. 118. The Aqueduct of Nero Leading to the Palatine: a Branch of the Aqua Claudia; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Views of Rome. 118. The Aqueduct of Nero Leading to the Palatine: a Branch of the Aqua Claudia
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1775
Accession Number: 1942.17
Medium and Support: etching on paper

Views of Rome. 72. The Tombs Attributed to Piso Licinianus and the Cornelii on the Appian Way; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Views of Rome. 72. The Tombs Attributed to Piso Licinianus and the Cornelii on the Appian Way
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1764
Accession Number: 1942.18
Medium and Support: etching on paper

Views of Rome. 51. Trajan's Column. Upright.; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Views of Rome. 51. Trajan's Column. Upright.
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1758
Accession Number: before6/30/46.4
Medium and Support: etching on paper

The Palazzo di Monte Citorio; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: The Palazzo di Monte Citorio
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1752
Accession Number: 2001/2.119
Medium and Support: etching on laid paper

Venduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Venduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: 1720 - 1778
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1756
Accession Number: 2005/1.445
Medium and Support: etching on paper

Venduta della Piazza di Monte Cavallo; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Venduta della Piazza di Monte Cavallo
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: 1720 - 1778
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1750
Accession Number: 2005/1.444
Medium and Support: etching on paper

Carceri d'Inuenzione, Plate V; Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title: Carceri d'Inuenzione, Plate V
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1761
Accession Number: 2005/1.446
Medium and Support: etching on paper

Senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita), from Piranesi's Lapides Capitolini (1762); Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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Title: Senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita), from Piranesi's Lapides Capitolini (1762)
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Physical Description: Large double-folio print, with fold marks. Contains various monuments and their text from ancient Rome. Title plate beneath print indicates that the fragments were from ancient Rome and found in various ancient ruins, with the exception of fragment XLIX, currently (at time of print) in the collection of the Collegio Romano, a building then housing the Jesuits' Rome seminary.; Print is patched. Separate plate marks are visible between image and inscription. The image is patched from four segments, while the text below is patched from two segments. Paper bears no watermark. Folio fold marks are noted on copy in file. Large text portions read as follows:; Inscription 1 (in image plate, center): senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita); Inscription 2 (in separate text plate attached at bottom): Lapides Capitolini / Sive Fastorum fragmenta, quos Verrius Flaccus, Caii et Lucii, Augusti Nepotum, praeceptor ase dispositos in inferiore fori parte conlocaverat, nunc primum edita prout cermuntur in Capitolio servata / nempe characteris et Lapidum forma, additis ad ornatum degantioribus aliquot veteribus sigillis, et anaglyplus / Fragmentum XLIX in Collegio Romano Patrum Societatis Jesu adservatum
Artist Life Dates: Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1762
Accession Number: 2007/2.117
Medium and Support: engraving, printed in black ink on paper

Portrait of a Gentleman; Cornelis Ploos van Amstel; After Cornelis Visscher

Title: Portrait of a Gentleman
Artist: Cornelis Ploos van Amstel
Artist Life Dates: 1726 - 1798
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1726-1798
Accession Number: 1990/2.34
Medium and Support: softground etching with roulette on cream laid paper

Judgment of Solomon; Cornelis Ploos van Amstel

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Title: Judgment of Solomon
Artist: Cornelis Ploos van Amstel
Artist Life Dates: 1726 - 1798
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1782
Accession Number: 2007/2.145
Medium and Support: etching and aquatint on paper

Jupiter and Mercury Visiting Baucis and Philemon from a series intitled, 'Theatr; Anton Prenner

Title: Jupiter and Mercury Visiting Baucis and Philemon from a series intitled, 'Theatr
Artist: Anton Prenner
Artist Life Dates: 1683-1761
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1728-1732
Accession Number: 1951/2.4
Medium and Support: engraving on paper

Frontispiece for 'L'Encyclopédie'; Benoît Prévost; After Charles-Nicolas Cochin, fils

Title: Frontispiece for 'L'Encyclopédie'
Artist: Benoît Prévost
Artist Life Dates: 1735-1804/09
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1772
Accession Number: 1969/2.164
Medium and Support: engraving on paper

The Rape of Europa (L'Enlèvement d'Europe); Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

Title: The Rape of Europa (L'Enlèvement d'Europe)
Artist: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Artist Life Dates: 1758-1823
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 1758-1823
Accession Number: 1990/2.64
Medium and Support: etching on chine colle, mounted on white paper

Stage Design: A Garden Setting; Lorenzo Quaglio, The Elder; Attributed to

Title: Stage Design: A Garden Setting
Artist: Lorenzo Quaglio, The Elder
Artist Life Dates: (active 1730 - 1805, )
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1753
Accession Number: 1963/2.23
Medium and Support: pen and gray ink with watercolor on paper

Elevation and Ground Plan of a Small Temple; Giacomo Quarenghi; Attributed to

Title: Elevation and Ground Plan of a Small Temple
Artist: Giacomo Quarenghi
Artist Life Dates: (1744 - 1817)
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 1744-1817
Accession Number: 1958/1.63
Medium and Support: graphite, pen and black ink with, blue and brown wash, with ink framing line

Adoration of the Magi; Jan Erasmus Quellinus; Attributed to

Title: Adoration of the Magi
Artist: Jan Erasmus Quellinus
Physical Description: This unfinished painted study depicts a crowd of figures gathered around three richly dressed men and a woman and child, who appear on a flight of stairs near the entrance to a large building decorated with classical columns and pilasters. An elderly bald man wearing a red cloak trimmed with ermine kneels with his head bowed at the top of the stairs before a kneeling woman who holds an infant in her right arm. Another man wearing a turban decorated with a large feather stands behind the kneeling man and holds a gold censer hanging from a chain in his left hand. A third richly dressed man stands at the bottom of the stairs with his back turned toward the viewer. A number of other figures crowd around this central group from the sides. A large ox sits in the right foreground with a donkey standing behind it.
Artist Life Dates: 1634-1715
Century: 17th - 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1634-1715
Accession Number: 1963/2.44
Medium and Support: oil on paper mounted on canvas

Lady Eleanor Dundas; Henry Raeburn

Title: Lady Eleanor Dundas
Artist: Henry Raeburn
Physical Description: Lady Eleanor Dundas is shown half length, seated in front of a brown background. She looks towards the light source to the right of the painting. She is dressed in a diaphanous black dress with an Empire cut and black veil. A sheer lace collar frames her throat. She has heavy lidded eyes and an alert or slightly mournful expression
Artist Life Dates: 1756-1823
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1795
Accession Number: 1955/1.83
Medium and Support: oil on canvas

Voltaire Composing 'La Pucelle d'Orléans or Le Rêve'; Ransonnette and Saint-Aubin

Title: Voltaire Composing 'La Pucelle d'Orléans or Le Rêve'
Artist: Ransonnette and Saint-Aubin
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1782
Accession Number: 1981/1.322
Medium and Support: engraving on paper

Interior of a Sumptuous Palace; Vincenzo dal Re

Title: Interior of a Sumptuous Palace
Artist: Vincenzo dal Re
Artist Life Dates: act. from 1737-1762
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: before 1762
Accession Number: 1970/2.144
Medium and Support: pen and bistre with gray wash

Head of Paris [Testa di Paride]; Guido Reni; after Guido Reni

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Title: Head of Paris [Testa di Paride]
Artist: Guido Reni
Physical Description: Bust portrait of Paris of Troy. He looks off to the upper left. He is shown with a helmet that is toped with a sphynx-like figure and long feathers.
Artist Life Dates: 1575-1642
Century: 18th century
Accession Number: 2013/2.569
Medium and Support: etching on laid paper

Death of Lucretia; Jean Restout II; Attributed to

Title: Death of Lucretia
Artist: Jean Restout II
Artist Life Dates: 1692 - 1768
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1965/2.3
Medium and Support: ink and crayon on paper

Heads of Angels: Miss Frances Isabella Gordon (1782-1831); Joshua Reynolds; After

Title: Heads of Angels: Miss Frances Isabella Gordon (1782-1831)
Artist: Joshua Reynolds
Artist Life Dates: 1723-1792
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: after 1782
Accession Number: 1932.6
Medium and Support: oil on canvas

Lord Charles Spencer (1740-1820), Second son of the Third Duke of Marlborough; Joshua Reynolds

Title: Lord Charles Spencer (1740-1820), Second son of the Third Duke of Marlborough
Artist: Joshua Reynolds
Physical Description: A young man leans against a stone ledge and gazes to his right. He wears a slate blue jacket with a white collar and cuffs and has a matching mantle. He casually hooks a finger of his left hand in the hilt of a sword that hangs at his waist. A plain stone column immediately behind the sitter creates a near silhouette of the shadowed side of his face. A hazy sky fills the background.
Artist Life Dates: 1723-1792
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1759
Accession Number: 2001/2.128
Medium and Support: oil on canvas

Les Promenades du Luxembourg; Jacques Rigaud

Title: Les Promenades du Luxembourg
Artist: Jacques Rigaud
Artist Life Dates: c.1681-1754
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1729
Accession Number: 1960/1.128
Medium and Support: engraving on paper

Mother and Child in a Landscape; George Romney

Title: Mother and Child in a Landscape
Artist: George Romney
Artist Life Dates: 1734-1802
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 1734-1802
Accession Number: 1958/1.93
Medium and Support: sepia brush and wash on white paper

Landscape; Joseph Roos

Title: Landscape
Artist: Joseph Roos
Artist Life Dates: 1726 - 1805
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 1726-1805
Accession Number: 1970/2.90
Medium and Support: brush, blue gray wash and graphite

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778); Joseph Rosset; Attributed to

Title: Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)
Artist: Joseph Rosset
Artist Life Dates: 1706-1786
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1726-1786
Accession Number: 1969/2.14
Medium and Support: ivory with wood base

Group of Gypsies. After Francis Wheatley's drawing, 'Palmerston Fair,' 1782. Fro; Thomas Rowlandson; after Francis Wheatley

Title: Group of Gypsies. After Francis Wheatley's drawing, 'Palmerston Fair,' 1782. Fro
Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Artist Life Dates: 1756-1827
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1786
Accession Number: 1970/2.135
Medium and Support: etching on paper