Detail View: Wetmore Print Collection: Portrait of Clemens Decimustertius, Pontifex Maximus Venetus
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Filename:
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FW-0888.jpg
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Creator:
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PIRANESI, Giambattista (or Domenico Cunego?)
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Creation Date:
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1700-1799
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Primary Creation Century:
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18th Century
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Title:
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Portrait of Clemens Decimustertius, Pontifex Maximus Venetus
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Alternate Title:
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Pope Clement 13th of Venice
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Object Type:
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print
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Medium:
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etching
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Donor:
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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
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Dimensions:
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44x31
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Descriptive Notes:
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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
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Comments:
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Christianity, Catholicism, popes, architecture
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Box Number:
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Box45
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