Stairways adorned by magnificient architecture... (Gruppo di Scale ornato di magnifica Architettura...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"

ca. 1750

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate (Image): 9 5/8 × 14 9/16 in. (24.5 × 37 cm) Plate (Inscription): 11/16 × 14 7/16 in. (1.8 × 36.6 cm) Sheet: 13 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (33.7 × 49.5 cm)
Collection no.: 37.45.3(16)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Stairways adorned by magnificient architecture... (Gruppo di Scale ornato di magnifica Architettura...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive". Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Stairways adorned by magnificient architecture... (Gruppo di Scale ornato di magnifica Architettura...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive" — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1750.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate (Image): 9 5/8 × 14 9/16 in. (24.5 × 37 cm) Plate (Inscription): 11/16 × 14 7/16 in. (1.8 × 36.6 cm) Sheet: 13 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (33.7 × 49.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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