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The Monumental Tablet, 1750. Etching on heavy ivory laid paper.
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · Plate: 39.2 × 54 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Monumental Tablet
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian, 1720-1778
- Date
- 1750
- Medium
- Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 39.2 × 54 cm (15 7/16 × 21 5/16 in.); Sheet: 59.5 × 81.5 cm (23 7/16 × 32 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1720–1778
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.