Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Round Tower
1761
Physical Qualities
Etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite with burnishing, Sheet: 630 x 469 mm. (24 13/16 x 18 7/16 in.)
Plate: 546 x 413 mm. (21 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate III from the series "Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'invenzione)"
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.3
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Inscribed: Etched below image at lower left: "Piranesi F." In top left corner of image: "III" In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H. 3 ii"
Markings: WM: fleur de lis?
Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-1778
Italian, 1720-1778
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