Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for a ceremonial gondola, 1745–47
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and the Gift of Henry S. Morgan; 1966.11:10

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for title page with a pulpit, ca. 1746–47
Pen and brown ink and wash and pink watercolor, over black chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and Gift of Henry S. Morgan; 1966.11:8

Attributed to Nicolas François-Daniel Lhuillier (French, 1736–1793)
Lunette with trophies, ca. 1760
Red and black chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and Gift of Henry S. Morgan; 1966.11:35

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Standing man, ca. 1772–75 (recto) and Arch of Septimius Severus (verso), ca. 1770–72
Pen and brown ink and black chalk (recto); red chalk and graphite (verso)
Collection of Vincent Buonanno

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
View of the Tiber in Rome with the opening of the Cloaca Maxima, 1775
Red and black chalk
Private Collection

Giovanni Battista Piranesi and workshop
Proposed alteration of San Giovanni in Laterano, with columnar ambulatory, ca. 1763–64
Pen and brown ink and wash, and gray wash, over graphite
The Morgan Library & Museum, Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and Gift of Henry S. Morgan; 1966.11:55

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for a chimneypiece with masks on the lintel, a bird, and a rabbit, ca. 1764–67
Pen and brown ink, over red chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and Gift of Henry S. Morgan; 1966.11:66

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for a vertical wall panel with the Maltese cross, for Santa Maria del Priorato, ca. 1764–66
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and Gift of Henry S. Morgan; 1966.11:53

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Ruins at Pozzuoli, ca. 1776–77
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased as the Gift of the Fellows; 1961.1

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Preparatory drawing for the Ruins of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the City of Cori in the Antichità di Cora, 1763
Red and black chalk
The Morgan Library & Museum, Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and Gift of Henry S. Morgan; 1966.11:66 Verso