Two Chimneypieces: Upper (as designed for Senator Rezzonico)–with a Medusa head at the center of the lintel and vases flanking the jambs; Lower–with an eagle at center flanked by satyr heads on the lintel, from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura Egizia, Etrusca, e Greca con un Ragionamento Apologetico in defesa dell'Architettura Egizia, e Toscana, opera del Cavaliere Giambattista Piranesi Architetto
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1769
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 21 7/16 x 15 3/16 in. (54.5 x 38.5 cm)
Plate: 16 5/16 x 11 in. (41.5 x 28 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession year: 1941