The Gothic Arch, published 1761

Not on View

Carceri (Second Edition, First Issue)

etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, and burnishing on laid paper

plate: 41.5 x 54.9 cm (16 5/16 x 21 5/8 in.)

sheet: 53.6 x 76.7 cm (21 1/8 x 30 3/16 in.)

Robison 1986, no. 40, State iii/vi

1983.118.15

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

in later hand, lower left below image in graphite: Also before Piranesi name

John Ker, Duke of Roxburgh. H.H. Bishop, 1886. Philip Hofer. Lucien Goldschmidt, New York. Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1983.

Cafritz Foundation, Morris and Gwendolyn, The
Millard, Mark Jacob

1994: The Glory of Venice, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 396, 397, 485, no. 279 (repro. p. 397)(entry by Olimpia Theodoli).

2000: "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century", Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 419.

1918: Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

1922: Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome. London: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.

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.

1994: The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: no. 279.