Sheet of Sketches: Standing Man with Raised Arm, Cherubim

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title

Sheet of Sketches: Standing Man with Raised Arm, Cherubim

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality)

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1758–1778

Medium

Pen and black ink, and charcoal, with traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

23.1 × 36.5 cm (9 1/8 × 14 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Tiffany and Margaret Blake

Reference Number

1959.3V

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