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The Drawbridge
Public Domain

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Drawbridge

1760

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Drawbridge

1760

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving with scratching, Sheet: 629 x 470 mm. (24 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.) Plate: 549 x 422 mm. (21 5/8 x 16 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number 1935.1.7
Multiple gangways with a spiral staircase ascending a tower to the left
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.

Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.

Inscribed: Etched in lower left, partially below image: "Piranesi f." On wall in center left background, behind and below four hanging hoops: illegible letters, "I S O [??] C" In upper left corner of image: "VII"

Markings: WM: none

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