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The Monumental Tablet (Plate 4 of the Grotteschi)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1747–48
Medium/Technique
Etching, engraving, drypoint, scratching
Dimensions
Sheet: 52.7 x 72.3 cm (20 3/4 x 28 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 39.2 x 54.2 cm (15 7/16 x 21 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 39.2 x 54.2 cm (15 7/16 x 21 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.
Accession Number54.776
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind, p. 80, no. 27; Focillon 23; Robison 24, ii/iv (Second Edition, First Issue, through Third Edition, First Issue, 1750-c. 1790); Ficacci 108
State
ii?
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceM. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York; their gift to the MFA June 10, 1954