The Pier with Chains, 1761

  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720-1778
  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720-1778

Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 15 7/8 × 21 5/8 inches (40.3 × 54.9 cm) Sheet: 22 1/8 × 31 5/8 inches (56.2 × 80.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund and Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund

42.76

Signed in plate, lower right of image: Piranesi F. XVI

Inscribed in pencil, lower right margin: H. 16

Thomas Weld (Lulworth, England)

Alden Galleries

1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Pier with Chains, 1761, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund and Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 42.76.