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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Arch with a Shell Ornament1761

Not on view
Etching of a vast, imaginary vaulted prison interior with intersecting staircases, timber scaffolding, hanging chains, and tiny figures, rendered in dense cross-hatched black ink

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Arch with a Shell Ornament, 1761, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, William Randolph Hearst Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Title
The Arch with a Shell Ornament
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
1761
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 16 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. (40.96 x 54.93 cm); Sheet: 20 5/16 x 30 1/4 in. (51.59 x 76.83 cm)
Credit Line
William Randolph Hearst Collection
Accession Number
46.27.11
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings