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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Ground Plan of Farnese Palace. Verso: Measured grid for another ground plan?
Pen and brown ink, with gray wash, over black chalk, on paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink; verso: black chalk.
8 3/4 x 12 13/16 inches (222 x 325 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:49
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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. 49, repr.
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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