About the Artwork
The Arch with a Shell Ornament
1761
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Artist) Italian, 1720-1778 Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Publisher) Italian, 1720-1778
Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 16 × 21 1/2 inches (40.6 × 54.6 cm) Sheet: 21 1/4 × 31 1/4 inches (54 × 79.4 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund and Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
42.71
Public Domain
Markings
Signed in plate, lower left: Piranesi F.
Inscribed in pencil, lower right margin: H. 11 | Before No
Provenance
Thomas Weld (Lulworth, England)
Alden Galleries
1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Arch with a Shell Ornament, 1761, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund and Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 42.71.
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