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Sacrificial Offering in a Temple
Giovanni Battista Piranesiafter 1750
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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- Title: Sacrificial Offering in a Temple
- Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)
- Date Created: after 1750
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 14.3 x 9.1 cm (5 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Secondary Support: 15.3 x 10.4 cm (6 x 4 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: [Erardo Aeschlimann, Milan]
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.259
- Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash; framing lines in brown ink
- Inscriptions: falsley signed, lower right, in brown ink: Piranesi ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, center, in brown ink: Piranese ; upper left, in graphite: 9421 [underlined]
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: Italy, 18th century
- Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Collection: DR - Italian
- Accession Number: 1953.259
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