Title: The Staircase of the Giants, Ducal Palace, Venice
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1712–93
Artist:  Francesco Guardi 
Artist bio: Italian, Venice 1712–1793 Venice
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk. Selectively pricked holes for the construction of straight lines
Dimensions: 10 3/8 x 7 5/16in. (26.4 x 18.5cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1937
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Arches, term: Stairs, term: Venice