Title Plate, 1761

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

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 21 3/8 × 16 3/8 inches (54.3 × 41.6 cm) Sheet: 31 1/4 × 22 1/8 inches (79.4 × 56.2 cm)

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

42.61

Signed in plate, center left of image: G. BATTISTA | PIRANESI

Inscribed in plate, center left of image: CARCERI | D'INVENZIONE | DI G. BATTISTA | PIRANESI | ARCHIT. | VE NE. In pencil, lower right margin: H.

Thomas Weld (Lulworth, England)

Alden Galleries

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

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Title Plate, 1761, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund and Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 42.61.