The Arch with a Shell Ornament

published 1800/1809

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.6996

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robison 1986, no. 37, State vi/vii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1934

  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1934.

1961

  • Piranesi Prints, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1961.

Bibliography

1918

  • Focillon 34.

1922

  • Hind 11.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q65020196

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