The Drawbridge

1780s

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, scratching [date should be read as "published 1780s"]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 54.7 x 41.1 cm (21 9/16 x 16 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 68.3 x 53 cm (26 7/8 x 20 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.6992

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robison 1986, no. 33, State v/vi

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1934

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

1959

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1959, no catalogue.

1961

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

1965

  • Master Prints, William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 1965-1966.

  • Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of 'Fantastic' Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965, no. 35 (as "The Prison. Plate 7"), repro.

2001

  • The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, repro.

2004

  • The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2004-2005.

Bibliography

1918

  • Focillon 30.

1922

  • Hind 7.

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.

Watermarks

BRACCIANO (Robison 59)

Wikidata ID

Q65020180

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