ID: 700009370 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009370	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

The Pier with a Lamp (etching (print); Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (Venetian, 1720 - 1778); printed...; published 1750/1758; National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States); 1946.21.400)

Titles:

The Pier with a Lamp (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: published 1750/1758

Creator Display:

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (Venetian, 1720 - 1778); printed later [preferred]

printmaker Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (Italian printmaker, architect, 1720-1778) [500114965]

Locations:

Current: National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States) [500115983] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1946.21.400

Credit Line: Rosenwald Collection

Display Materials: etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	open biting [300179734]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing techniques, printing surface preparation techniques, biting techniques)

	burnishing (polishing) [300053869]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <finishing and refinishing processes>, finishing (process), polishing)

Dimensions: unavailable

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,description)

Specific Subjects:

	prisons (buildings) [300006460]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, institutional buildings, correctional institutions (buildings)) (AAT)

	pier (supporting element) [300000953]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, architectural elements, <structural elements and components for structural elements>, structural elements, <supporting and resisting elements>, <piers and pier components>) (AAT)

	lamp (lighting device) [300037592]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Furnishings (hierarchy name), furnishings (works), <furnishings by form or function>, lighting devices, <lighting devices by form>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: [date should be read as "published 1780s"]

State: i/vii

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

............... Carceri d'Invenzione

.................... Pier with a Lamp, The

Sources and Contributors:
The Pier with a Lamp	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Robison, Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies, Catalogue Raisonné (1986) Robison 1986, no. 41,