drawing
- Museum number
- 1908,0616.31
- Description
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A monument flanked by sphinxes in an vaulted interior
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1745-1750 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 89 millimetres
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Width: 66 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The scribbly penlines are like those in 1908,0616.12; both most likely date from the end of the 1740s as they recall the Hamburg study for one of the 'Carceri' of 1749/50 (H. Thomas, 'The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi', London, 1954, no. 4).
HC
Lit.: E. Croft-Murray, in exhib. cat., BM, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi', 1968, no. 119
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1968 BM, Piranesi, no.24
2020 20 Feb-9 Aug, London, BM, 'Piranesi's drawings'.
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1908,0616.31