Ornamental Frieze with Confronted Griffons and Other Fragments

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Ornamental Frieze with Confronted Griffons and Other Fragments

Series: Vases, candelabra, grave stones, sarcophagi, tripods, lamps, and ornaments designed and etched by Cavaliere Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italy, 1778
Prints; etchings
Etching
Image: 17 x 22 in. (43.18 x 55.88 cm); Plate: 18 x 23 in. (45.72 x 58.42 cm); Sheet: 21 x 29 3/4 in. (53.34 x 75.57 cm)
Gift of Andrea and Jeanne Rothe (M.2002.175.19)
Not currently on public view