Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Pier with a Lamp
1761
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.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate XV from the series "Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'invenzione)"
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.15
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
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
