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The Grand Piazza

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Grand Piazza

1760

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Grand Piazza

1760

Physical Qualities Etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite with burnishing, Sheet: 626 x 467 mm. (24 5/8 x 18 3/8 in.) Plate: 541 x 413 mm. (21 5/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number 1935.1.4
Vast arch with a frieze and balustrade supporting smoking urns
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein

Inscribed: Etched along bottom right edge: "Piranesi F." In top right corner of image: "IV." In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H. 4 ii"

Markings: WM: none

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1719–1777

Italian, 1720-1778
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