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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Drawbridge, published 1749/1750

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series Title

Carceri (First Edition, First Issue)

Medium

etching, engraving, scratching

Dimensions

plate: 54.7 x 41.1 cm (21 9/16 x 16 3/16 in.)

sheet: 71.5 x 51.2 cm (28 1/8 x 20 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

W.G. Russell Allen, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, and Pepita Milmore Funds

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 33, State i/vi

Accession Number

1976.35.5

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Image Use

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Exhibition History

2001: The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, repro.

Bibliography

1918: Focillon 30.

1922: Hind 7.

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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