Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Sawhorse
1760
Physical Qualities
Etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite with scratching, Sheet: 470 x 628 mm. (18 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.)
Plate: 414 x 556 mm. (16 5/16 x 21 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.12
Platform on arches in the middle ground supporting an inscribed monument with instruments of torture to the right
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Inscribed: In upper right corner of image: "XII." Etched in lower left corner below image: "G. Piranesi f." In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H. 12 ii"
Markings: WM: none
