IMAGE
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Carceri invenzione]. Piranesi F[ecit]. [Plate 16, 2nd state. 1760?]
- Date
- 1760 - 1761
- By
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Reference
- C-091-019
- Description
The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, with beams, stairways, pulleys, showing a wide hall with a low timbered roof, and a pier in the foreground
Focillon 39
Robison (1986) catalogue number 42. State iv, early to mid-1760s
Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The pier with chains. Early to mid-1760s
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 - 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, 547 x 413 mm on sheet 745 x 545 mm, Watermark: watermark 36
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