Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Sketches for the Prow of a Ship
5 7/8 x 8 1/8 inches (149 x 208 mm)
Pen and brown ink on light brown paper, irregularly trimmed and pasted down.
1966.11:120
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
Notes
Although this sketch appears to be in Piranesi's hand, and on the basis of the drawing style probably dates to his final decade, the function of the drawing is not clear, for it relates to no other works from that part of his career.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered at lower center, in graphite, "62".
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Dover, 1978, no. 120, repr.
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