Date ca. 1769 Medium Etching Dimensions Sheet: 16 1/8 x 21 7/16 in. (41 x 54.5 cm)
Plate: 9 5/8 x 15 3/16 in. (24.5 x 38.5 cm) Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1973.509.5 Getty ids beside the museum's words, by exact match, 2026-09-09
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Holder's headings Fireplaces , Griffins , Fire Close Chimneypiece: Affronted griffons on the lintel and candelabra on the jambs (Ch. accompagnée de son plan et décorée d'une frise de griffons), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi ca. 1769
Also by Giovanni Battista Piranesi 12 Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante Giovanni Battista Piranesi1740s–60s Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Round Tower, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons) Giovanni Battista Piranesica. 1749–50 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, from Views of Rome Giovanni Battista Piranesi1750/59, published 1800–07 The Art Institute of Chicago The Skeletons Giovanni Battista Piranesi1750 The Art Institute of Chicago View of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (now called Castel S. Angelo) from the rear, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views) Giovanni Battista Piranesica. 1756 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Giant Wheel, plate 9 from Imaginary Prisons Giovanni Battista Piranesi1761 The Art Institute of Chicago The Pier with a Lamp, plate 15 from Imaginary Prisons Giovanni Battista Piranesi1761 The Art Institute of Chicago The Lion Bas-Reliefs, plate 5 from Imaginary Prisons Giovanni Battista Piranesi1761 The Art Institute of Chicago
Within fifty years of ca. 1769 2839 Design for the Lower Portion of a Wall Panel Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–17421714 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Ausserlesenster Curiositäten merck-würdiger Traum-Tempel nebst seinen denk-würdigen Neben-Zimmern von allerhand sonderbaren Träumen ... Männling, Johann Christoph1714 Stiftung der Werke von C.G.Jung, Zürich, online Speculum imaginum veritatis occultae, exhibens symbola, emblemata, hieroglyphica, aenigmata, omni tam materiae, quam forma varietate ... Masen, Jacob1714 Stiftung der Werke von C.G.Jung, Zürich, online Miniature longcase clock with calendar Daniel Quareca. 1720–25 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Table or bracket clock with calendar Daniel Delanderprobably ca. 1720 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Decorated Capital Letter A Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 17521715 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Decorated Capital Letter R Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752ca. 1715 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Decorated Capital Letter H Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752ca. 1715 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Also at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 634 Marble female figure Bastis Master2600–2400 BCE Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail Unknownca. 2465–2458 BCE Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall Unknownca. 2446–2389 BCE Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY West wall of the chapel of the mastaba Kaemsenu with niches for Iretnub, Kaemsenu and Werdjedptah Unknownca. 2420–2250 BCE Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Design amulet, Cow and Calf on the Back, Device showing Antithetical Falcons Flanking an Ankh Sign over a Crouching Lion Unknownca. 2150–2100 B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Design Amulet, Pyramidal Back with Horizontal Piercing, Device showing Two Falcons Flanking what is meant to be an Ankh Sign Unknownca. 2150–2010 B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Design Amulet, Cow Nursing Calf and also a Kneeling Suckling Man Visible on Opposite Side on the Back, Device showing Antithetical Falcons with an Ankh Sign over a Lion Unknownca. 2150–2100 B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Design Amulet, Back in the Form of a Woman Suckling a Child, Device showing Two Lizards Head-to-tail Unknownca. 2100–2080 B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Add a connection Propose a reading
Next Giovanni Battista Piranesi made Chimneypiece: Affronted griffons on the lintel and candelabra on the jambs (Ch. accompagnée de son plan et décorée d'une frise de griffons), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses), and made these too.
Made in the eighteenth century, like Chimneypiece: Affronted griffons on the lintel and candelabra on the jambs (Ch. accompagnée de son plan et décorée d'une frise de griffons), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses).