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Miscellaneous Furniture Including Three Clocks and a Console Table

18th century
18th century
390 x 253 mm (15.4 x 10 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Etching

Series: from Diverse Maniere d’Adornare i Cammini ed ogni Altra Parte Degli Edifizi Desunte Dall’Architettura Egizia, Etrusca, Greca (Cammino che si vede nel Palazzo di Sua Ecc’za Milord Conte D’Exeter a Burghley in Inghilterra.)

Marks: Signed in plate, lower left

Bibliography: Focillon 925; Petrucci (1953) 910a; Wilton-Ely 886.

Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892)

Accession Number: Retrospective TBD

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architecture*, ornament*

architecture - Art or science of designing and building structures, especially habitable structures, in accordance with principles determined by aesthetic and practical or material considerations. Refers also to the structures created. [November 1994 related term added. October 1990 alternate term added.]
ornament - Decorative forms that are an integral part of a building or object but are not essential to its structure. Regarding techniques of embellishment in general, use "decoration (process)." [November 1990 descriptor moved.]

Dimensions

plate Dimensions: 390 x 253 mm (15.4 x 10 in.)

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778) . Miscellaneous Furniture Including Three Clocks and a Console Table, 18th century. From Diverse Maniere d’Adornare i Cammini ed ogni Altra Parte Degli Edifizi Desunte Dall’Architettura Egizia, Etrusca, Greca (Cammino che si vede nel Palazzo di Sua Ecc’za Milord Conte D’Exeter a Burghley in Inghilterra.). Etching. plate : 390 x 253 mm (15.4 x 10 in.). DAC accession number Retrospective TBD. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892).

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