- Museum number
- 1908,0616.9
- Description
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Interior of a vast vaulted building; with steps to left
Pen and brown ink, brown-grey wash, red chalk
- Production date
- 1745-1755
- Dimensions
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Height: 76 millimetres
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Width: 106 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- As Méjanès noted, the composition bears some similarity with the 'Idea d'un atrio reale' added to the 'Opere varie' in the 1757 edition (J. Wilton-Ely, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the complete etchings', San Francisco, 1994, I, no. 50). The drawing is probably a little earlier, late 1740s or first half of the 1750s, comparable with 1908,0616.20/21.
HC
Lit.: E. Croft-Murray, in exhib. cat., BM, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi', 1968, no. 106; J. Wilton-Ely, in exhib. cat., London, South Bank, 'Piranesi', 1978, no. 42a; J.-F. Méjanès, in exhib. cat., Rome, Villa Medici, Dijon, Palais des États de Bourgogne and Paris, Hôtel de Sully, 'Piranèse et les Français', 1976, no. 145
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1968 BM, 'Piranesi', no. 106
1976 May-June, Rome, Villa Medici, 'Piranesi and the French', no. 145
1976 Jul-Sept, Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 'Piranesi', no. 145
1976 Oct-Nov, Paris, Hotel de Sully, 'Piranesi', no. 145
1978, London, Hayward Gallery, 'Piranesi', no. 42a
1996/7 Dec-Feb, Cologne Wallraf-Richartz Mus, 'Capriccio', ex cat.
1997 Mar-Jun, Zürich, Kunsthaus, 'Capriccio'
1997 Jul-Sep, Vienna, Kunsthist Mus, 'Capriccio'
2002/3, Oct-April, BM, 'Piransesi's 'Carceri' (Prisons)', (no cat.)
2003 May-Jul, Northumbria, Univ. Gallery, 'Piranesi's Carceri'
2003 Jul-Oct, York, City Art Gallery, 'Piranesi's Carceri'
2003 Oct-Dec, Milton Keynes, Art Gallery, 'Piranesi's Carceri'
2003/4 Dec-Feb, Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, 'Piranesi's Carceri'
2020 20 Feb-9 Aug, London, BM, 'Piranesi drawings'.
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1908,0616.9
