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Workshop of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Sketch of Capital with Dolphin and Acanthus. Verso: Sketches of animal claw furniture leg, putto head, and rococo frame
ca. 1755-1775
Graphite on paper; verso: black chalk.
5 x 9 9/16 inches (127 x 242 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:42
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Numbered at lower left, in graphite, "56".
Provenance:
Mrs. J. P. Morgan, New York; by descent to her sons Junius S. Morgan, Princeton and Paris (no mark, see Lugt 1536) and Henry S. Morgan, New York.
Associated names:
Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.
Bibliography:
Stampfle, Felice. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Dover, 1978, no. 42, repr.
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