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Design for a Chimneypiece with Volutes

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778

Design for a Chimneypiece with Volutes

ca. 1764-1767
3 7/8 x 2 9/16 inches (100 x 66 mm)
Pen and brown ink, with traces of red chalk, on paper.
1966.11:76

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

Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered at upper left, inverted, in graphite, "82".
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. 76, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department