IMAGE
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Carceri invenzione]. Piranesi F[ecit]. [Plate 10, 2nd or 3rd state. 1761?]
- Date
- 1760 - 1765 - 1761 - 1774
- By
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Reference
- C-091-030
- Description
The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, pulleys, platforms, (one with prisoners), stairways and round arches in a vast gallery
Focillon 33
Robison catalogue number 36, state 4 or 5, mid-1760s to early 1770s. First state was 1760 or 1761. 'Prisoners on a projecting platform' is the popular English title for this work.
Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. Prisoners on a projecting platform
Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Etching, 412 x 543 mm on sheet 545 x 745 mm
- Additional description
Fold mark across the centre.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Etchings, Etching, 412 x 543 mm on sheet 545 x 745 mm, Watermark: Watermark no. 36.
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