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The Arch with a Shell Ornament (Plate XI of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1761
Medium/Technique
Etching, engraving, scratching, sulphur tint or open bite, and drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 56.5 x 80.3 cm (22 1/4 x 31 5/8 in.)
Platemark: 40.9 x 55.2 cm (16 1/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 40.9 x 55.2 cm (16 1/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession Number21.11682
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 011, ii/iii; Focillon 34; Robison 37, vi/vii (Second Edition, Fourth Issue, through early printings of Fifth Edition, c. 1775-1835); Ficacci 120
Marks
Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1921, gift of Miss Ellen Twistleton Bullard (b. 1865 - d. 1959), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 1, 1921)