Roman Prison, second half 18th century

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with brown and gray wash heightened with white gouache over traces of graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 21.3 x 15.5 cm (8 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

Accession Number

2000.9.21

Artists / Makers

French 18th Century (artist)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (related artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Mme Marielle Leithe / Bd (not deciphered) 3 Nice; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 14 / 15.368 (printed label); by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: Panini; ruled lines in graphite on verso

Provenance

Mme. Marielle Leithe, Nice. Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, Washington, D.C.; his wife, Therese Iselin Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1941; their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, New York, 1958; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Chanler, Gertrude Laughlin

Exhibition History

1982: Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 18.