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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Arch with a Shell Ornament, published 1800/1809

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series Title

Carceri (Fourth Edition (First Paris Edition))

Medium

etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, drypoint

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 37, State vi/vii

Accession Number

1943.3.6996

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.

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

Bibliography

1918: Focillon 34.

1922: Hind 11.

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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