- Museum number
- 1908,0616.7
- Description
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Architectural fantasy with a bridge, a staircase and a circular building, viewed from beneath an arch
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, and red chalk
- Production date
- 1749 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 164 millimetres
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Width: 224 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Although not specifically linked to any of the 'Carceri' etchings, the drawing's architectural motifs, such as the bridge pierced by an oculus and the vaulting above, are like those in the second edition of the series issued in 1761. The style of the drawing with free red chalk underdrawing is like 1840,0314.159, 1908,0616.8, 20 and 21, a group of studies most plausibly dated to the first half of the 1750s.
HC
Lit.: E. Croft-Murray, in exhib. cat., BM, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi', 1968, no. 113
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1968 BM, Piranesi, no. 113
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 drawings'.
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1908,0616.7
