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The Pier with Chains (Plate XVI of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1761

Medium/Technique Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing
Dimensions Sheet: 60 x 89.2 cm (23 5/8 x 35 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 40.6 x 55.2 cm (16 x 21 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession Number21.11689
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 016, ii/iii; Focillon 39; Robison 42, v/vi (Second Edition, Fourth Issue, through early printings of Fifth Edition, c. 1775-1835); Ficacci 125
State iv
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)