Opere del Cavalier Piranesi, che si vendono sciolte presso il medesimo nel palazzo del Sig. Conte Tomati … Oeuvres du Chevalier Piranesi, qui se vendent chez lui méme dans l’hotel de M. le Comte Tomati, [c. 1778]
Curatorial Notes:
Piranesi’s market grew well beyond Rome. Made around the time of his death, this broadsheet lists the titles and descriptions of his works, along with their prices, in French on one side and Italian on the other. In the central column, an entry describes a book of views of Paestum, just before the list of vedute. The entry does not give the book’s price or its total number of plates; corrections to the entry have been added by hand. Piranesi’s sons finished and published this book after their father’s death, and the broadsheet is suggestive of its limbo state at the end of his life.