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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, designer

The Tomb of Nero, mid 1700s

Description

Maker

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

Title

The Tomb of Nero

Year

mid 1700s

Medium

etching

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • etching

Supports

  • Medium weight cream laid paper

Identification

State

ii/vi

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Membership Fund

Object Number

66.309

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Landscape Tradition in Printmaking

January 19 - April 22, 1990

Venetian Drawings and Prints of the 18th Century

January 12 - February 5, 1967

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