- Museum number
- 1908,0616.18
- Description
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Study of a tripartite vaulted colonnade
Pen and brown ink, with grey wash, over black chalk
Verso: Six architectural sketches
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1740 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 136 millimetres
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Width: 198 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- An early drawing generally dated to around 1740, either before Piranesi left Venice for Rome or shortly after his arrival there. The staircase in a courtyard quickly sketched on the verso recalls the Scala d'Oro in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice.1908-6-16-19 is another example of an early scenographic-type drawing much influenced by Piranesi's study of Bibiena theatrical designs.
HC
Lit.: E. Croft-Murray, in exhib. cat., BM, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi', 1968, no. 79; J. Wilton-Ely, in exhib. cat., London, South Bank, 'Piranesi', 1978, no. 26a; A. Bettagno, in exhib. cat., Venice, Fondazione Cini, 'Disegni di Giambattista Piranesi', 1978, no. 3
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1968 BM, 'Piranesi', no. 18
1978 London, Hayward Gallery, 'Piranesi', no. 26a
1978 Aug-Oct, Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 'Piranesi', no. 3
2002/3, Oct-April, BM, 'Piransesi's 'Carceri' (Prisons)', (no cat.)
2003 May-July, Sth Bank Tour, Northumbria Univ Gall, Piranesi's Carceri
2003 July-Oct, Sth Bank Tour, York, City AG, Piranesi's Carceri
2003 Oct-Dec, Sth Bank Tour, Milton Keynes AG, Piranesi's Carceri
2003/4 Dec-Feb, Sth Bank Tour, Bath, Victoria AG, Piranesi's Carceri
2020 20 Feb-9 Aug, London, BM, 'Piranesi's drawings'.
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1908,0616.18
