Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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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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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.

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