The Pier with Chains
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: 41.6 x 54.9 cm (16 3/8 x 21 5/8 in.)
sheet: 53.6 x 76.7 cm (21 1/8 x 30 3/16 in.) -
Accession
1983.118.17
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Catalogue Raisonné
Robison 1986, no. 42, State ii/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1983.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 420, 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.
1996
Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 339, 346; fig.6.21, 344.
2000
Pollak et al. 2000, no. 82
Inscriptions
lower right in plate: Piranesi F. XVI
Wikidata ID
Q74045971