Description Medium: Etching with engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 41.5 x 55.5 cm (16.34 x 21.85 inch). Image size: 25.8 x 44.7 cm. (10.16 x 17.6 inch). Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. Some small mangane stains from paper making process. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI, REZZONICO, DIVERSE MANIERE, NEOCLASSICISM, ROMAN ORNAMENT, ITALIAN DESIGN PRINT, 18TH CENTURY FURNITURE DESIGN, PIER TABLE, DECORATIVE ARTS | PCO-B9-43 BACKGROUND INFORMATION From: Diverse maniere d’adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall’architettura egizia, etrusca, e greca (first published Rome 1769; Paris edition 1800-1807, Calcographie des Piranesi Freres, Vol. XX). Reference: Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The Complete Etchings; V&A Museum, acc. no. E.4930-1908; Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome (matrix M-1400_909a / 909a_bis). Biography engraver: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) was an Italian etcher, architect, and designer renowned for his dramatic views of Rome and influential decorative designs. His work combined archaeological scholarship with imaginative reinterpretation of classical antiquity. Through his engravings, especially the Carceri and the Diverse Maniere, he became one of the most influential figures in the development of Neoclassicism across Europe.
