The Man on the Rack, published 1761

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series Title

Carceri (Second Edition, First Issue)

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 56.4 x 41.8 cm (22 3/16 x 16 7/16 in.)

sheet: 76.7 x 53.6 cm (30 3/16 x 21 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, acquired with assistance from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 43, State ii/vi

Accession Number

1983.118.3

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Piranesi F.; lower center in plate: Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinita de' Monti, Fogli Sedici, al prezzo de paoli venti.

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1983.

Associated Names

Cafritz Foundation, Morris and Gwendolyn, The
Millard, Mark Jacob

Exhibition History

2000: Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 418, repro.

Bibliography

1918: Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

1922: Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome. London: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.

1986: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

2000: Pollak et al. 2000, no. 82