
Although long attributed to Piranesi, this drawing is more likely by the professional draftsman Nicolas François-Daniel Lhuillier. The capital studied in the drawing appears to be one from the interior of the Pantheon.
Numbered at lower left, in graphite, "64".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis inside double circle, centered on chain line.
Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.
Stampfle, Felice. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Dover, 1978, no. 27, repr.