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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Plate 57: Furniture designed for Cardinal Rezzonico

Description

Maker

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), printmaker

Title

Plate 57: Furniture designed for Cardinal Rezzonico
, from Diverse Maniere d'Adornare i Cammini... (Diverse ways of Ornamenting Chimneypieces...)

Year

1769

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

etching

Supports

Dimensions

Top plate: 39.2 x 25.6 cm (15 7/16 x 10 1/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered on the bottom plate: "Questo tavolino ed... Clemente XIII."; lettered LR on bottom plate: "Cavalier Piranesi inv. e inc."
Inscribed in pen and ink LR: 57

Identification

Standard Reference Number

Wilton-Ely 1994, no. 884

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Elisha C. Durfee

Object Number

63.066.57

Type

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Tombstone

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), printmaker
Plate 57: Furniture designed for Cardinal Rezzonico; , from Diverse Maniere d'Adornare i Cammini... (Diverse ways of Ornamenting Chimneypieces...), 1769
etching
Top plate: 39.2 x 25.6 cm (15 7/16 x 10 1/16 inches)
Gift of Elisha C. Durfee 63.066.57

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