Prisoners on a Projecting Platform
published 1761
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, and burnishing on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 53.6 x 76.7 cm (21 1/8 x 30 3/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1983.118.11
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Catalogue Raisonné
Robison 1986, no. 36, State ii/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1983.
Associated Names
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.
1997
Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 105, fig. 27.
2000
Pollak et al. 2000, no. 82
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: Piranesi f.
Wikidata ID
Q74045932