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
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
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
