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Drawing, Fantasy of a Garden with a Monumental Urn, Sculptures, and a Fountain, ca. 1740-1741
This is a Drawing. It was created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. It is dated ca. 1740-1741 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brown wash, ruled borders in pen and brown on white laid paper laid down on white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
Its dimensions are
12.5 x 7.9 cm (4 15/16 x 3 1/8 in.) mount: 16.0 x 11.1 Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
It is inscribed
in pen and brown ink, lower right on sheet and mount: Piranesi; on verso in pen and brown ink: B.P.L. No. 138
Cite this object as
Drawing, Fantasy of a Garden with a Monumental Urn, Sculptures, and a Fountain, ca. 1740-1741; Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778); Italy; pen and brown ink, brown wash, ruled borders in pen and brown on white laid paper laid down on white laid paper; 12.5 x 7.9 cm (4 15/16 x 3 1/8 in.) mount: 16.0 x 11.1 Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-7695
