drawing
- Museum number
- 1908,0616.14
- Description
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The courtyard of a fortified building with a well and flight of steps
Pen and brown ink, and brown wash, over black chalk, the left corners made up
- Production date
- 1743-1750 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 119 millimetres
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Width: 165 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. 13; H.O. Corfiato, 'Piranesi compositions', London, 1951, pl. 55; H. Thomas, 'The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi', London, 1954, under no. 5; E. Croft-Murray, in exhib. cat., BM, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi', 1968, no. 103
- 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
- 1908,0616.14
