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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts (Accession number 1963.30.33358) / https://art.famsf.org/charles-knapton/pantheon-rome-series-prints-imita…IMAGE INFORMATION

La Rotonde cl[aire] obsc[ure] de G. P. Panini
Trans.: The Rotunda in chiaroscuro by G. P. Panini

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

November 1765

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 96, 3

Notes:

The Pantheon in Paris is also known as Santa Maria Rotonda

Etching with woodcut printed from three blocks in shades of grey by Charles Knapton (ca. 1700-1760), after Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765), Interior of the Pantheon, from the series "Prints in Imitation of Drawings" (1732-1736)

No. 51 in Henry M. Hake, "Pond’s and Knapton’s Imitations of Drawings, Print Collectors' Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4 (1922): 324-340