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G.B. Piranesi: Etchings of Prisons, Views of Rome from the National Gallery of Art Collection

May 5 – July 28, 1971
Ground Floor, Cafeteria Corridor (1,000 sq. ft.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Arch with a Shell Ornament, published 1800/1809, etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, drypoint, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.6996

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Italian, 1720 - 1778