IMAGE
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Carceri invenzione]. Piranesi F[ecit]. [Plate 2, 2nd or 3rd state. 1761?]
- Date
- 1760 - 1764 - 1761 - 1774
- By
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Reference
- C-091-026
- Description
The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, open at one side with a view through one of its arches of a church tower, carvings, ropes and pulleys, a bound prisoner in the centre foreground, his legs tied to a rack
Focillon 24
Robison catalogue number 43, State 4, mid-1760s to early 1770s.
Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The man on the rack
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.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- 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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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778. Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Carceri invenzione]. Piranesi F[ecit]. [Plate 2, 2nd or 3rd state. 1761?]. 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]. Ref: C-091-026. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22821712More information can be found in our terms of use.