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Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian
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Title: Ancient Altar on which sacrifices were performed in antiquity, surrounded by other ruins (Ara antica sopra la quale si facevano anticamente i sagrifizi, con altre ruine all'intorno), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"
Series/Portfolio: Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive (Part One of Architecture and Perspectives)
Artist:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome)
Date: ca. 1750
Medium: Etching
Dimensions:
Plate: 9 1/2 × 13 3/4 in. (24.2 × 34.9 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 19 7/16 in. (33.7 × 49.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Object Number: 37.45.3(12)
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