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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, printmaker

Plate 45: Egyptian decoration of the Caffe degli Inglesi, 1769

Description

Maker

Title

Plate 45: Egyptian decoration of the Caffe degli Inglesi

Year

1769

Medium

Etching

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

Plate: 23.8 x 32.5 cm (9 3/8 x 12 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered along bottom: "Altro spaccato per... deserti dell' Egitto."; lettered LL: "Disegno ed invezione del Cavalier piranesi."; lettered LR: "Cav. Piranesi F."
Numbered LR: 45
Watermark: a fleur-de-lys within a double circle.

Type

Credit

Gift of Elisha C. Durfee

Object Number

63.066.45

About

A section for the English Coffee House in the Piazza Spagna, decorated with royal, religious, and funerary iconography appropriated from Egypt. From a series of 67 plates.

Lettered along bottom: "Altro spaccato per... deserti dell' Egitto."; lettered LL: "Disegno ed invezione del Cavalier piranesi."; lettered LR: "Cav. Piranesi F."
Numbered LR: 45
Watermark: a fleur-de-lys within a double circle.

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