COLLECTION NAME:
Wetmore Print Collection
Record
Filename:
FW-0888.jpg
Creator:
PIRANESI, Giambattista (or Domenico Cunego?)
Creation Date:
1700-1799
Primary Creation Century:
18th Century
Title:
Portrait of Clemens Decimustertius, Pontifex Maximus Venetus
Alternate Title:
Pope Clement 13th of Venice
Object Type:
print
Medium:
etching
Donor:
Fannie Wetmore, 1928; Donated 1928, purchased from F. Meder (Manhattan “Dealer in Old and Rare Prints”) in 1905 for $24, documented by receipt in our Wetmore archives
Dimensions:
44x31
Descriptive Notes:
Margin, lower left: Ioannes Baptista Piranesius invenit right: Domenicus Cunego, et Piranesius sculpserunt. April 2009 – found among “loose” prints in cabinets in entryway to Wetmore Print Room; this info updated with slide#; both slide# and Wetmore accession number inscribed in pencil on print and on bottom mat board
Comments:
Christianity, Catholicism, popes, architecture
Box Number:
Box45
