View of the Ruins of an Ionic Temple at Sardis, Probably the Temple of Neptune

Sheet: 15 1/8 x 21 1/4 inches (38.4 x 54 cm), Image: 8 1/16 x 12 1/2 inches (20.4 x 31.7 cm), Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "9 (crossed out and replaced with '10') | IX."; in brown ink, upper left: "X."; within image: labels A-D; in graphite, lower center: "Ionic Temple at Sardis"; in brown ink, lower center: "View of the ruins of a Ionik temple of Sardis taken from the 44" [...] of the Gendus behind"; on back, center left: "e"; on back, center right: "N. IV", watermark: Strasburg bend and lily with "WR" [Wendelin Riehel of Basle] in monogram (Churchill 408)
Accession number: B1977.14.959
Medium: Black ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 15 1/8 x 21 1/4 inches (38.4 x 54 cm)|Image: 8 1/16 x 12 1/2 inches (20.4 x 31.7 cm)
Inscriptions: Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "9 (crossed out and replaced with '10') | IX."; in brown ink, upper left: "X."; within image: labels A-D; in graphite, lower center: "Ionic Temple at Sardis"; in brown ink, lower center: "View of the ruins of a Ionik temple of Sardis taken from the 44" [...] of the Gendus behind"; on back, center left: "e"; on back, center right: "N. IV"|watermark: Strasburg bend and lily with "WR" [Wendelin Riehel of Basle] in monogram (Churchill 408)
Bibliography: John A. Pinto, Speaking ruins, Piranesi, architects and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2012, opp. p. 217, pp. 234, 235, fig. 163, NA1120 .P56 2012 (YCBA)
Collection: Prints and Drawings