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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Arch with a Shell Ornament, published 1761

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series Title

Carceri (Second Edition, First Issue)

Medium

etching, engraving, scratching, sulphur tint or open bite, and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 53.6 x 76.7 cm (21 1/8 x 30 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, acquired with assistance from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 37, State iii/vii

Accession Number

1983.118.12

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Piranesi F.

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1983.

Associated Names

Cafritz Foundation, Morris and Gwendolyn, The
Millard, Mark Jacob

Exhibition History

1988: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

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.

1997: Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 105, fig. 26.

2000: Pollak et al. 2000, no. 82

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