I can’t stop buying art...

[Drmad7]

My wife says stop adding to the pile of art I have to keep and sell. But for $5.99 at my favorite GW store...I had to buy it.
It’s by Giovanni Battista Piranesi back in the 1770s or so. Very collectible and sells for over $1K! I’ll probably contact Everything But The House locally and add it along with some other prints/etchings to sell.

 

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[JimDon]

Are you sure it’s a print. I don’t see the plate marks. It might be a later lithograph.

 

[Drmad7]

Are you sure it’s a print. I don’t see the plate marks. It might be a later lithograph.

Additional pics of it outside of the frame.

 

[Lost Signal]

You may know this, and I can't tell from the photos, but there is an easy way to see if an intaglio print is not original. Engravings, etchings, and drypoints require a lot of pressure, and dampened paper to produce an image, so if it's an original print the paper will be embossed along the edge of the image. If there isn't an actual depression in the paper, then it's probably a lithographic reproduction.

Either way it's a nice looking print.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

You may know this, and I can't tell from the photos, but there is an easy way to see if an intaglio print is not original.

I didn't know this!!! Thanks for educating me - just another bit of wisdom. Thank you for posting this!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice find!