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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Design for Chimneypiece and a Shield-backed Chair

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778

Design for Chimneypiece and a Shield-backed Chair

ca. 1765-1769
7 1/8 x 13 15/16 inches (182 x 354 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
1966.11:86

Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.

Notes
Although this chimneypiece does not appear in Piranesi's "Diverse Maniere," the jambs of this design resemble those in plate 49 (f. 910).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at left, in pen and brown ink, "Scudo"; numbered at upper right, inverted, in graphite, "93"; inscribed with initial on verso, in pen and brown ink, "N".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis inside double circle, surmounted by monogram "CB", fragment.
Associated names
Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Dover, 1978, no. 86, repr.
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