• Calcographie des Piranesi; ou, Traité des arts d’architecture, peinture et sculpture, développés par la vue des principaux monumens antiques et modernes, 1804

Curatorial Notes:

• Piranesi’s sons began issuing their own printed catalogs after their father’s death, and continued to do so after they moved the business to Paris. Once they ran out of the letterpress texts that had been an integral part of Piranesi’s books, the sons focused on selling impressions of his copperplates. They advertised enormous multi-volume collections of his prints as the “complete works”, and eventually saturated the market. Their business ultimately failed. In the long term, the sons’ business strategies played a large role in the modern conception of Piranesi solely as a printmaker rather than as a maker of books.

Date:

• 1804

Format:

• Book

Type:

• Bibliography

Extent:

• 20 p. 22 cm.

Creator:

• Piranesi (F. et P., frères) (Firm) Paris

Publisher:

• À Paris, chez les Piranesi, frères [etc., etc] an XII, 1804.

Language:

• French

Subject:

• Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778—Opere varie
• Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778—Bibliography
• Piranesi, Francesco, 1756-1810—Bibliography

Author:

• Piranesi (F. et P., frères) (Firm) Paris

Credit line:

• Rare Books, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9924245933506421

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/2b88qn65x