Skeletten en sculpturen, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, in or after 1747

Title(s)

Skeletten en sculpturen
Capricci decorativi (former series title)
Grotteschi (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1958-607

Catalogue reference

• Focillon 20
• Wilton-Ely 21
• Robison 21-2(5)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Decoratieve fantasie met resten van bouwwerken, skeletten en resten van sculpturen. Links een sculptuur van Hercules en een Herme.

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (mentioned on object)
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi (mentioned on object)

Place

Rome

Dating

in or after 1747

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving / drypoint / scoring

Measurements

height 390 mm × width 549 mm

What

• (human) skeleton
• ruin of a building ~ architecture
• landscape with ruins
• piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the J.W. Edwin Vom Rath Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1958

Copyright

Public domain

• Giovanni Battista Piranesi : the complete etchings, John Wilton-Ely, p. 41, cat.nr. 21
• Piranesi : early architectural fantasies : a catalogue raisonné of the etchings, Andrew Robinson, p. 116-117, cat.nr. 21
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi, p. 281, cat.nr. 20
• Aanwinsten