drawing
- Museum number
- 1908,0616.12
- Description
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A palace by a canal with two figures in a boat moving beneath an arch
Pen and brown ink, and brown wash, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1743-1750 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 128 millimetres
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Width: 88 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- All three drawings mounted on the same mount (1908,0616.12/14) can be dated to the mid-to-late 1740s, the flickering, nervous penwork and the assured use of different shades of wash in the BM studies is very like the Hamburg design for one of the 'Carceri' series of 1749/50 (Thomas, no. 4).
HC
Lit.: Vasari Society, VIII, 1912-13, no. 11; H. Thomas, 'The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi', London, 1954, no. 5; E. Croft-Murray, in exhib. cat., BM, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi', 1968, no. 101; J. Scott, 'Piranesi', New York and London, 1975, fig. 71
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1968 BM, Piranesi, no.22.
2020 20 Feb-9 Aug, London, BM, 'Piranesi drawings'.
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1908,0616.12
