The Monumental Tablet

published 1750/1759

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, drypoint, scratching

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 39 x 53.7 cm (15 3/8 x 21 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.49.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robison 1986, no. 24, State ii/iv


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1918

  • Focillon 23.

1922

  • Hind p.80, no.27.

1986

  • Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

1999

  • Dixon, Susan M. "Piranesi and Francesco Bianchini." Art History 22 (June 1999): 184-213.

Wikidata ID

Q65568954


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