Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Sawhorse
1761
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.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate XII from the series "Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'invenzione)"
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.12
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
Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-1778
Italian, 1720-1778
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