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Pier with a lamp

Maker

(artist)
1720-1778

(etcher)
1720-1778

(publisher)
18th century (Life dates)

Title

Pier with a lamp

Date of Production

1749 = 1760

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 41.5 cm
Width: 54.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1978.PG.44.13

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Label Text

The areas of grey tone so vital to the atmosphere of this image are thought to have been created by 'open-bite': brushing acid directly onto the plate, and letting it bite indiscriminately, to create an area of tone, rather than the lines created by drawing with a needle through a ground. The unsettling atmosphere is compounded by the expressions on the faces of the ringed masks at the foot of the central pier, which seem to be those of suffering human beings, rather than architectural features.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Piranesi, Tiepolo, Canaletto - Etchings from the Courtauld
Collection
, London & England, 11/02/1999-03/05/1999

Hogarth and Piranesi: Engravings and etchings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 09/03/1992-07/06/1992

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : inscribed : printed : centre & recto : :

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