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Carceri d’Invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi, Archit[etto] Vene[ziano]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Carceri d’Invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi, Archit[etto] Vene[ziano]

1760

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Carceri d’Invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi, Archit[etto] Vene[ziano]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Carceri d’Invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi, Archit[etto] Vene[ziano]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Carceri d’Invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi, Archit[etto] Vene[ziano]

1760

Physical Qualities Etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite, Sheet: 623 x 460 mm. (24 1/2 x 18 1/8 in.) Plate: 545 x 414 mm. (21 7/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number 1935.1.1
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein

Inscribed: In trompe-l'oeil on background wall: "CARCERI / D' [break for pillar]INVENZIONE / DI [break for pillar] G BATTISTA / PIRANESI / ARCHIT. / VENE" In top left corner: "I." Along bottom edge, left of center: "Piranesi F." In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H.1 iii"

Markings: WM: none

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1719–1777

Italian, 1720-1778
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