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Chimneypiece (Fireplace surmounted by an oval mirror and arabesques)
Public Domain

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Chimneypiece (Fireplace surmounted by an oval mirror and arabesques)

1769

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Chimneypiece (Fireplace surmounted by an oval mirror and arabesques)

1769

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.)
Portfolio/Series From Diverse Maniere d'Adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Diverse Ways of Ornamenting Chimneypieces and All Other Parts of the House)
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

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

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