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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, published 1800/1809

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series Title

Carceri (Fourth Edition (First Paris Edition))

Medium

etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 36, State v/vi

Accession Number

1943.3.6995

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Exhibition History

1934: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1934.

1956: Renaissance to Roccoco: A Loan Exhibition of Italian Engravings and Woodcuts, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1956, no cat.

1961: Piranesi Prints, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1961.

Bibliography

1918: Focillon 33.

1922: Hind 10.

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.

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