Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Carceri invenzione]. Piranesi F[ecit]. [Plate 15, 2nd or 3rd state. 1761? Mid-1760s?]

Date
1760 - 1765 - 1761 - 1785
By
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Reference
C-091-032
Description

The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, stairways and round arches springing from a square column with lions' heads.

Focillon 38

Robson number 41. State 5 or 6 (mid-1760s to ca 1835). The first state was 1760 or 1761. 'Pier with a lamp' is the popular English title for this work

Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. Pier with a lamp

Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761

Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).

Physical Description: Etching, 547 x 413 mm on sheet 745 x 545 mm

Additional description

Fold mark across the centre.

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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, 547 x 413 mm on sheet 745 x 545 mm, Watermark: Watermark 36.
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