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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Pier with a Lamp, 1780s

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series Title

Carceri (Third Edition ?)

Medium

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

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 41, State vi/vii

Accession Number

1943.3.6999

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Exhibition History

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

1962: Installation during Fine Art Festival, American River College, Sacramento, CA, 1962, no cat.

Bibliography

1918: Focillon 38.

1922: Hind 15.

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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