Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Pier with a Lamp
1760
Physical Qualities
Etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite with burnishing, Sheet: 449 x 622 mm. (17 11/16 x 24 1/2 in.)
Plate: 413 × 546 mm. (16 1/4 × 21 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.15
Vast pier, supporting two arches, decorated with human heads holding rings
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Inscribed: Below image at left: "Piranesi F." In upper left corner of image: "XV" In graphite at lower left of sheet: "H. 15 ii"
Markings: WM: fleur de lis in double oval with blob above
