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Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style, with three masks and two cameos (Plate 6 of the Diverse Maniere)


Camino con tre maschere e due cammei nello stile egizio
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1769

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 38.2 x 53 cm (15 1/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
Platemark: 24.6 x 37.7 cm (9 11/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Accession Number1986.40
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind, p. 86 (1769); Focillon 866
State ?
Marks Verso, lower left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsEtched in the plate, bottom right corner, the number "52"
ProvenanceGoodspeed's Book Shop, Inc., Boston; gift of The Print and Drawing Club February 26, 1986