Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Gothic Arch
1760
Physical Qualities
Etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite with burnishing, Sheet: 467 x 620 mm. (18 3/8 x 24 7/16 in.)
Plate: 413 x 546 mm. (16 1/4 x 21 1/2 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate XIV from the series "Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'invenzione)"
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.14
Complex groups of interrelated ruined arches supporting beams and ropes
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Inscribed: Along bottom edge towards left: "Piranesi F." In upper right corner of image: "XIV." In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H.14 ii"
Markings: WM: fleur de lis in double oval with blob above
