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Fountain-like Monument with Rostral Column
Fountain-like Monument with Rostral Column

Fountain-like Monument with Rostral Column

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
about 1750
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink and wash over black chalk
DimensionsSheet: 25.4 x 18.5 cm (10 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit LineHarvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund, Bequest of William Perkins Babcock, Gift of George R. Shaw, and Anonymous gift, by exchange
Accession numberM26424
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ClassificationsDrawings
Provenance1917, sold by Charles Goodspeed's Bookshop, Boston to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: May 1917)
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