Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Sketch for a Cartouche
ca. 1765-1770
2 3/4 x 5 3/16 inches (71 x 132 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, on paper; framing line in pen and brown ink.
1966.11:121
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed within cartouche, in pen and brown ink, mostly illegible except for "[...] ESSATO PER [...]"; numbered at lower left, in graphite, "47".
Associated names
Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Dover, 1978, no. 121, repr.
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