Art, literature & history
Fantasy of a Façade with Bizarre Ornaments
1764/1766
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and dark brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 60.1 x 47.2 cm (23 11/16 x 18 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.182.17
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Fantasy of a Façade with Bizarre Ornaments. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Battista_Piranesi,_Fantasy_of_a_Fa%C3%A7ade_with_Bizarre_Ornaments,_1764-1766,_NGA_73860.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Fantasy of a Façade with Bizarre Ornaments — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 1764/1766.
Medium: pen and dark brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 60.1 x 47.2 cm (23 11/16 x 18 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.182.17. Woodner Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.