Camera sepolcrale

1742

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 46.5 × 32.3 cm (18 5/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
    plate: 40 × 27.3 cm (15 3/4 × 10 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.11.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robison 1986, no. 20, State ii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1986

  • Robison, Andrew. Piranesi: the Early Architectural Fantasies. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings. Washington, D.C., 1986: 20.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Prianesi inve it fi; by later hand, lower right, in graphite: Robison 20 / STATe 11/5

Wikidata ID

Q76561881

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