A View of the Inside of the New Prison at Rome

c. 1765

Georges François Blondel

Associated Names
Georges François Blondel

Artist, French, 1730 - c. 1791

This image depicts the interior of an architectural structure. it includes a large arched ceiling with a coffered pattern and a single barred window. Below the ceiling, there is a bridge-like walkway with figures gathered. Underneath the walkway, in the lower section, are clusters of figures in separate archways and staircases. The image shows textures and use of light to emphasize depth and the scale of the space.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 56.4 x 40.5 cm (22 3/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 59.4 x 44.6 cm (23 3/8 x 17 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.118.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1700), no. 4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private Collection, England; Christopher Lennox-Boyd, inv. no. P3359; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1922

  • "The Mezzotints of G. F. Blondel." The Print Collector's Quarterly, 9 (1922): 303-314.

1930

  • Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: A View of the Inside of the New Prison at Rome / To the Rt. Hnble. RICHARD Earl Temple this Plate is most Humbly Dedicated... lower left in plate: Plate 1; lower right in plate: G F Blondell Delint. & Sculp. / GF Blondel; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 25/2 179 / 13914/SPB; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 529 x 407I/ 565x407 PL / P3359 VVV CD 1 ii/ii

Wikidata ID

Q76341004

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