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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Round Tower, published 1750/1758

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series Title

Carceri (First Edition, Second Issue)

Medium

etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing

Credit Line

Phillips Family Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 30, State i/vi

Accession Number

1981.8.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Exhibition History

1983: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

Bibliography

1918: Focillon 26.

1922: Hind 3.

1986: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

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