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Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style, with two mummies in profile and two en face (Plate 21 of the Diverse Maniere)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1769
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 39.6 x 53.1 cm (15 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
Platemark: 25.2 x 38.9 cm (9 15/16 x 15 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 25.2 x 38.9 cm (9 15/16 x 15 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Accession Number1986.37
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind, p. 86 (1769); Focillon 881
State
i?
Marks
Verso, lower right-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceGoodspeed's Book Shop, Inc., Boston; gift of The Print and Drawing Club February 26, 1986