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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Design for a Chimneypiece with a Monopods. Verso: Design for a Chimneypiece with Festoons and Ionic Columns
ca. 1764-1769
Pen and brown ink on paper; verso: pen and brown ink.
6 1/2 x 6 inches (166 x 152 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:80
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Provenance:
Mrs. J. P. Morgan, New York; by descent to her sons Junius S. Morgan, Princeton and Paris (no mark, see Lugt 1536) and Henry S. Morgan, New York.
Bibliography:
Stampfle, Felice. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Dover, 1978, no. 80, repr.
Notes:
On same mat as 1966.11:81.
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.
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