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Fantastic Port Monument [right plate]

late 1740s

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Medium

etching and engraving [printed 1978]
Credit Line

Gift of the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica-Calcografia, Rome
Dimensions

overall: 53.9 x 40 cm (21 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
Accession Number

1979.32.2
Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 27, State (modern impression)

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2001

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

2004

The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2004-2005.

Bibliography

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.

Markings

BS: Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica-Calcografia

Wikidata ID

Q65568965

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