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The Arch with a Shell Ornament, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Medium
- Etching, engraving, scratching, sulphur tint or open bite, drypoint; first state of seven (Robison)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19 1/2 x 25 3/16 in. (49.5 x 64 cm) Plate: 15 15/16 x 21 7/16 in. (40.5 x 54.5 cm)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Classification
- Prints
- Dated
- ca. 1749–50
- Pixels
- 3797 × 2815
- SHA-256
- 799a9623310c8856…
- Record
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The Arch with a Shell Ornament, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons), ca. 1749–50. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.