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The Drawbridge

published 1749/1750

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching, engraving, scratching
Credit Line

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

1976.35.5
Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 33, State i/vi

Artwork history & notes

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.

Watermarks

Fleur-de-lis (Robison 5)

Wikidata ID

Q65568926

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