Fantasy of an Ancient Bath

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1755/1760

This is a drawing of an architectural interior with tall columns and arches. The drawing depicts a grand architectural space featuring a series of towering columns supporting arches, with two prominent pediments… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi ¹
Date: 1755/1760 ¹
Medium: pen and brown ink with gray wash and traces of red chalk, on laid paper pasted down on the remains of Piranesi's original mount ¹
Original: 4,872 × 3,449 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Andrea Woodner

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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