Palatial Courtyard with a Fountain

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title

Palatial Courtyard with a Fountain

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1740–1778

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper

Inscriptions

Signed bottom left: "Piranesi"

Dimensions

25.7 × 38.9 cm (10 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund

Reference Number

1963.139

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