Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini
date: label: Date
content: 1769
name: label: Artist
content: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A compartmentalized scene with several Egyptian figures and caryatids. Upper register depicts a cow in profile, along with birds, a crocodile, a cat, and a hawk. The central register depicts three areas, two of which show figures before a landscape with pyramids and other structures. At the center, two figures hold stelae inscribed with hieroglyphs, with another stela in the center. The lower register contains smaller depictions of figures, some winged, sphinxes, snakes, and other Egyptian characters.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Gilbert
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1967-85-24-52
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: bound print
label: Type
content: bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper