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Chimneypiece with a frieze of serpents (Plate 31 of the Diverse Maniere)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1769
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 39.3 x 52.6 cm (15 1/2 x 20 11/16 in.)
Platemark: 24.8 x 38.2 cm (9 3/4 x 15 1/16 in.)
Platemark: 24.8 x 38.2 cm (9 3/4 x 15 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Accession Number1986.39
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind, p. 86 (1769); Focillon 891
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