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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Pier with a Lamp

1760

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The Pier with a Lamp

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Pier with a Lamp

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Pier with a Lamp

1760

Physical Qualities Etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite with burnishing, Sheet: 449 x 622 mm. (17 11/16 x 24 1/2 in.) Plate: 413 × 546 mm. (16 1/4 × 21 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number 1935.1.15
Vast pier, supporting two arches, decorated with human heads holding rings
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein

Inscribed: Below image at left: "Piranesi F." In upper left corner of image: "XV" In graphite at lower left of sheet: "H. 15 ii"

Markings: WM: fleur de lis in double oval with blob above

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1719–1777

Italian, 1720-1778
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