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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Pier Leone Ghezzi1750/1755
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Creator: Pier Leone Ghezzi
- Date Created: 1750/1755
- Physical Dimensions: sheet: 30.1 x 21.4 cm (11 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.) support: 48 x 37.9 cm (18 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
- Provenance: From three volumes of caricatures probably executed in Rome at the court of Carlos, King of Naples between 1734 and 1755 who acceded the throne of Spain as Carlos III in 1759; by inheritance to Carlos IV, 1788-1808; Joseph Bonaparte [1768-1844], King of Naples and Spain, 1808-1813; Marquis of Wellesley (later Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington), 1814. (David Carritt, London), by 1971; (Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara), 1972; purchased by NGA, 1997.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper mounted on album page
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