Prisoners on a projecting platform
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italy
1720 – 1778
Prisoners on a projecting platform
plate 10 from the series Carceri d'invenzioni (Imaginary prisons)
c 1749-50; and 1761
etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing on paper
Italy
1720 – 1778
Prisoners on a projecting platform
plate 10 from the series Carceri d'invenzioni (Imaginary prisons)
c 1749-50; and 1761
etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing on paper
- Place made
- Rome
- Medium
- etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing on paper
- Dimensions
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41.6 x 55.0 cm (plate)
52.7 x 70.7 cm (sheet) - Credit line
- Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund 1961
- Accession number
- 612G10
- Signature and date
- Signed in plate l.l. "Piranesi f.". Not dated.
- Media category
- Collection area
- European prints
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi 1720 – 1778
Prisoners on a projecting platform
c 1749-50; and 1761etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing on paperAccession no: 612G10