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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, printmaker

Plate 15: The Pier with a Lamp, 1749 - 1750

Description

Maker

  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720-1778, Italian, printmaker

Title

Plate 15: The Pier with a Lamp

Year

1749 - 1750

Medium

Etching

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • etching

Supports

  • Medium weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 41 x 54.3 cm (16 1/8 x 21 3/8 inches)

Identification

State

i/vi

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Jesse Metcalf Fund

Object Number

47.154.15

About

A vast pier, supporting two arches, decorated with human heads holding rings. From a series of 14 plates.

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Projects & Publications

Publications

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Complete Etchings

Piranesi

Early Architectural Fantasies

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Plate 15: The Pier with a Lamp with the accession number of 47.154.15. To request a higher resolution file, please submit an online request.

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