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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.410
People
? Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
Title
The Interior of a Church
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296492

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
21.7 × 17 cm (8 9/16 × 6 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bateson. [P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs (by 1929), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.410
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arthur McComb, Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / Morgan Memorial (Hartford, CT, 1930), no. 43
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 344, fig. 169

Exhibition History

  • Italian Painting of the Sei and Settecento, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/22/1930 - 02/05/1930

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