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Ancient School Built in the Egyptian and Greek Styles from Opera Varie
Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(Italian 1720–1778)
Date1750
MediumEtching and engraving
DimensionsOverall Inches: plate: 5-7/8 x 8-3/8 inches, sheet: 7-5/8 x 10-1/8 inches; Overall Centimeters: plate: 15 x 21.3 cm, sheet: 19.4 x 25.8 cm
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2013.28
Collections
ClassificationsWork on Paper
Object NameEtching
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureSouthern European
NationalityItalian
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Eighteenth
Signedin plate bottom left: Piranesi F.
Inscribedbottom right: W-E 49 o.v.; verso bottom right: ETCH/PIRANESI 4; verso bottom center: APG 19304