McGill Library
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Plate XI, Arch with A Shell Ornament
Item
54.8 x 40.3 cm
Print of an etching of archways, with bridges and staircases, a ladder. Some small figures in the background.
State VI. Watermarks: bird house with three birds and imprinted “FILIA/T DUPUY/AUVERGN/M42” (for more information see Robison, A., Piranesi-early architectural fantasies, 1986, p. 236, no. 83 and p. 233, no. 78), 1800-1830s and first Paris edition, 1800-1809.