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The Staircase with Trophies (Plate VIII of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1749–50
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 71.6 x 52.4 cm (28 3/16 x 20 5/8 in.)
Platemark: 54.6 x 40.1 cm (21 1/2 x 15 13/16 in.)
Platemark: 54.6 x 40.1 cm (21 1/2 x 15 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund
Accession NumberM25424
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 008, i/iii; Focillon 31; Robison 34, i/vi (First Edition, First through Third Issues, 1749-1760); Ficacci 117
State
i
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1914, sold by Mrs. A. M. B. Smith, London, to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1914)