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Period: 18th century (4787)

Type: chalk (1606) | graphite (1872) | ink (2963) | watercolour (2151)

Style: Italian (1743)

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Architectural capriccio - bridges

18th century

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

Pen and ink (brown), watercolour (brown), chalk (red), graphite on paper

height: 15.6 cm; width: 21.7 cm

Inscription
Signed, pen and ink (brown), lower right, recto, Piranesi
Stamped, ink, verso, collector's mark of Robert Witt, Lugt 2228b:
RMW

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.4004

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