drawing
- Museum number
- 1908,0616.23
- Description
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Interior with columns under a vaulted arcade, and other sketches
Pen and brown ink, with brown and grey wash, and black chalk
Verso: Architectural sketches including a ground plan for a centrally planned Greek Cross church
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1742-1743 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 181 millimetres
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Width: 229 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This and 1908,0616.22 are similar to the two BM drawings (1908,0616.28 and 30) related to the print series 'Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive' of 1743, and must date from around the same year. The composition bears a general resemblance to the 'Prima Parte' print of a vestibule of an ancient temple (J. Wilton-Ely, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the complete etchings', San Francisco, 1994, I, no. 13, p. 32). The manner in which Piranesi reduced the composition by drawing horizontal lines at the top, only sketching in the barest outlines above it, is very much like 1908,0616.30.
HC
Lit.: E. Croft-Murray, in exhib. cat., BM, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi', 1968, no. 82; J. Wilton-Ely, in exhib. cat., London, South Bank, 'Piranesi', 1978, no. 32b
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1968 BM, Piranesi, no.18
1978, South Bank, 'Piranesi', no. 32b
2020 20 Feb-9 Aug, London, BM, 'Piranesi's drawings'.
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1908,0616.23
