The Arch with a Shell Ornament

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778

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about 1765-1775

Etching, engraving, and drypoint on laid paper

Second edition, third issue

Plate: 15 15/16 × 21 9/16 in. (40.5 × 54.8 cm)

Sheet: 17 1/2 × 23 3/16 in. (44.4 × 58.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund

PR.995.8

Portfolio / Series Title

Plate 11 from Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'Invenzione)

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in plate, lower left margin: Piranesi F.; inscribed, in plate, in image, upper right: XI; inscribed, in pen and ink, on reverse, center left: a Paris Chez Naudet IIIe Estampes au Louvre / 1790; lower right: 1#/10

Course History

ARTH 17, Italian Renaissance Architecture: Issues and Approaches, Lauren Jacobi, Winter 2013

SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012

SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2012

SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, II, III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2013

SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2013

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013

CLST 7, The Idea of Rome, Margaret Williamson, Spring 2012

ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014

SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2014

SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014

THEA 16, Theatre and Society II: Early Modern Performance, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2015

SART 65, 66, 68, Architecture I, II, III, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2015

SART 65, Architecture 1, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2020

SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2021

ITAL 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Damiano Benvegnu, Fall 2021

ARTH 81.03, The Viral Image, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2022

SART 76, Senior Seminar, Enrico Riley, Winter 2022

SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2022

SART 27/28/74, Printmaking I/II/III, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2022

SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2022

Studio Art 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2023

Studio Art 27.01/28.01/74.01, Printmaking I/II/III, Jen Caine, Winter 2023

Studio Art 27.01, Studio Art 28.01, Studio Art 74.01, Printmaking I, II, III, Jen Caine, Winter 2024

Exhibition History

A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 54.

Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-June 26, 1995.

Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.

Prisons/ Impressions: Piranesi's Carceri, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, SArt 27 and 28, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 16-April 28, 1996.

Publication History

Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, p. 2, ill. p. 2, fig. 2, listed p.7, no. 54..

T. Barton Thurber, "Survival and Revival of the Classical Tradition: Antiquity in Rome from the Baroque Era to the Age of Enlightenment." In T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, pp. 59-63, ill. p. 62, listed p.74.

Provenance

Naudet, Paris, by 1790 (Lugt 1937); Hill-Stone, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1995.

Catalogue Raisonne

Focillon 34; Hind 11; Robison 37

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