Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Well
1760
Physical Qualities
Etching, engraving, and lavis with scratching and burnishing, Sheet: 466 x 627 mm. (18 3/8 x 24 11/16 in.)
Plate: 408 x 546 mm. (16 1/16 x 21 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.13
A grilled and rusticated window is set in the middle of a flight of stairs with groups of heavy chains 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: Etched below image at right: "Piranesi f." In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H. 13 ii"
Markings: WM: none
