Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Arch with a Shell Ornament
1761
Physical Qualities
Etching, engraving, drypoint, and sulphur tint or open bite with scratching, Sheet: 457 x 628 mm. (18 x 24 3/4 in.)
Plate: 406 x 546 mm. (16 x 21 1/2 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate XI from the series "Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'invenzione)"
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.11
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Inscribed: Etched below image at bottom left: "Piranesi F." Along upper right edge: "XI" In graphite in bottom left of sheet: "H. 11 ii"
Markings: WM: none
