Author
Giovanni Battista Piranesi is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XI., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“In the drawings of Piranesi, in the pictures of Rembrandt, one sees this grand language exhibited more truly. It is not picture, but certain primitive and leading effects”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“In the drawings of Piranesi, in the pictures of Rembrandt, one sees this grand language exhibited more truly. It is not picture, but certain primitive and leading effects”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XI." New-York Daily Tribune, 31 March 1847. · 31 March 1847
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“With him she examined, leaf by leaf, the designs of Raphael, of Michel Angelo, of Da Vinci, of Guercino, the architecture of the Greeks, the books of Palladio, the Ruins, and Prisons of Piranesi”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Margaret Fuller engaged with Giovanni Battista Piranesi's striking architectural etchings, specifically referencing his series of imaginary prisons, the Carceri d'invenzione, and his studies of Roman antiquity, Le Antichità Romane or Vedute di Roma.