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

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

Design for a Stool

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778

Design for a Stool

2 13/16 x 4 3/8 inches (71 x 111 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper cut to irregular shape; verso: trials in black chalk and pen and brown ink.
1966.11:104

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

Notes
On same mat as 1966.11:93; 102; 105.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered at lower left, in graphite, "22".
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. 104, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department