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The Arch with a Shell Ornament (Plate XI of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1749-50
Medium/Technique
Etching, engraving, scratching, sulfur tint or open bite, drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 52.4 x 71.5 cm (20 5/8 x 28 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 40.5 x 54.5 cm (15 15/16 x 21 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 40.5 x 54.5 cm (15 15/16 x 21 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund, by exchange
Accession NumberM25427
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 011, i/iii; Focillon 34; Robison 37, i/vii (First Edition, First and Second Issues, 1749-c. 1758); Ficacci 120
State
ii
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1914, sold by Mrs. A. M. B. Smith, London, to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1914)