Philip Hofer collection of Piranesi Vedute di Roma etchings

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Philip Hofer collection of Piranesi Vedute di Roma etchings

1742-1784

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou03100/catalog

Includes etchings (with some extra impressions) by Piranesi from the series "Vedute di Roma" and "Antichità romane de'tempi della Repubblica", parts I and II; and incomplete vol. 5 of "Opere varie di Architectura, prospettive, groteschi, antichità", with missing cover; and title pages and frontispiece of later publications of Piranesi's etchings. Collection also includes title page by Antonio Acquaroni of "Rome: Pantheon Collosseum, Forum Romanum, Pyramid, Trajans Column".

2 linear feet

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...