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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Sawhorse, 1780s

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series Title

Carceri (Third Edition ?)

Medium

etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, scratching [date should be read as "published 1780s"]

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.6997

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Image Use

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Bibliography

1918: Focillon 35.

1922: Hind 12.

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.

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