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Design for a Tabernacle. Verso: fragment of a design for two chairs

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778

Design for a Tabernacle. Verso: fragment of a design for two chairs

ca. 1764-1769
5 5/16 x 3 3/4 inches (135 x 95 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper, irregularly trimmed; verso: pen and brown ink.
1966.11:114

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

Notes
The chair at left on the verso is a sketch for the etched design at the bottom of pl. 66 of "Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini," 1769, f. 926. The tabernacle on the recto of this sheet may be by a workshop assistant rather than Piranesi himself.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered at lower right, in graphite, "55".
Watermark: Six-pointed star inside circle, surmounted by a cross, with letter "F" below circle, centered on chain line.
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. 114, repr.
Classification
Department