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The Well (Plate XIII of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1761

Medium/Technique Etching, engraving, scratching, burnishing, lavis
Dimensions Sheet: 56.5 x 80.3 cm (22 1/4 x 31 5/8 in.)
Platemark: 40.9 x 55.5 cm (16 1/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession Number21.11686
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 013, ii/iii; Focillon 36; Robison 39, v/vi (Second Edition, Fourth Issue, through early printings of Fifth Edition, c. 1775-1835); Ficacci 122
State ii
Marks Verso, 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)