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Sketch for Vase or Fountain with Figure of Victory. Verso: sketch for a cornice, computations.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778

Sketch for Vase or Fountain with Figure of Victory. Verso: sketch for a cornice, computations.

ca. 1765-1775
8 9/16 x 3 15/16 inches (218 x 100 mm)
Pen and brown ink on paper; verso: black chalk, numbered in black and red chalk.
1966.11:113

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

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. 113, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department