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Chimneypiece (Fireplace surmounted by an oval mirror and arabesques)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Chimneypiece (Fireplace surmounted by an oval mirror and arabesques)

1768

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Chimneypiece (Fireplace surmounted by an oval mirror and arabesques)

1768

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 600 x 437 mm. (23 5/8 x 17 3/16 in.) Plate: 390 x 250 mm. (15 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 2007.201
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2007; Pia Gallo Fine Old Master and Modern Prints, NY
Jessen Der Ornamentstich pl. 93.

Inscribed: lower left in plate: "Cavalier Piranesi inv. ed. inc."; lower right in plate: "3."

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1719–1777

Italian, 1720-1778
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