The Gothic Arch
published 1761
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, and burnishing on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
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.) -
Accession
1983.118.15
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Catalogue Raisonné
Robison 1986, no. 40, State iii/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John Ker, Duke of Roxburgh. H.H. Bishop, 1886. Philip Hofer. Lucien Goldschmidt, New York. Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1983.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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 and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 419, repro.
Bibliography
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.
2000
Pollak et al. 2000, no. 82
Inscriptions
in later hand, lower left below image in graphite: Also before Piranesi name
Wikidata ID
Q74045966