Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Lion Bas-Reliefs
1761
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 630 x 467 mm. (24 13/16 x 18 3/8 in.)
Plate: 562 x 411 mm. (22 1/8 x 16 3/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate V from the series "Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'invenzione)"
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.5
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Inscribed: Below lion's feet at lower right: "Piranesi F." In upper left corner of image: "V." In graphite at bottom left of sheet: H.5 i"
Markings: WM: none
