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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Interior of a Tavern in Pompeii, ca. 1775

Now On View

Description

Maker

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720-1778, Italian, printmaker

Title

Interior of a Tavern in Pompeii

Year

ca. 1775

Medium

Reed pen and ink on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

reed pen

Supports

paper

Dimensions

40.8 x 53.5 cm (16 1/8 x 21 1/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso: inscribed in pen an ink in an 18th-century hand:"Tav. 27" and "veduta interna della Taberna situata nella Strada che conduce alla Porta della Citta' e' sta' a man sinistra prima della Casa del Chierurgo" [sic]

Stamped with collector's mark of Ludwig Hermann Philippi (1848-1908; Lugt 1335)

Type

Credit

Gift of Henry D. Sharpe

Object Number

52.039

Projects & Publications

Publications

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings

September 2 - October 16, 1983

Italian Drawings from the Museum's Collection

March 17 - April 16, 1961

The Age of Canova

November 6 - December 15, 1957

Italian Drawings of the 16th Century--18th Century, Recently Acquired

October 22, 1952 - January 6, 1953

Use

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