Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-1778
The Pier with a Lamp, plate 15 from Imaginary Prisons
INV-7380
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-17781761
The Pier with a Lamp, plate 15 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian, 1720-1778 →etchingprint
Date
1761
Medium
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 40.8 × 54.7 cm (16 1/8 × 21 9/16 in.); Plate: 41.3 × 55.3 cm (16 5/16 × 21 13/16 in.); Sheet: 59 × 77.8 cm (23 1/4 × 30 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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