Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Gothic Arch
1760
Physical Qualities
Etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite with burnishing, Sheet: 467 x 620 mm. (18 3/8 x 24 7/16 in.)
Plate: 413 x 546 mm. (16 1/4 x 21 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.14
Complex groups of interrelated ruined arches supporting beams and ropes
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Inscribed: Along bottom edge towards left: "Piranesi F." In upper right corner of image: "XIV." In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H.14 ii"
Markings: WM: fleur de lis in double oval with blob above
