Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Imaginary Prisons of G. Battista Piranesi, Venetian Architect
1761
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Imaginary Prisons of G. Battista Piranesi, Venetian Architect
1761
Physical Qualities
Etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite, Sheet: 623 x 460 mm. (24 1/2 x 18 1/8 in.)
Plate: 545 x 414 mm. (21 7/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Title plate from the series "Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'invenzione)"
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.1
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
[note: this work was prepared for the 2021 BMA rotation 2 for "Adelyn Breeskin: Curating a Legacy" but cut from the installation]
[note: this work was prepared for the 2021 BMA rotation 2 for "Adelyn Breeskin: Curating a Legacy" but cut from the installation]
Inscribed: In trompe-l'oeil on background wall: "CARCERI / D' [break for pillar]INVENZIONE / DI [break for pillar] G BATTISTA / PIRANESI / ARCHIT. / VENE" In top left corner: "I." Along bottom edge, left of center: "Piranesi F." In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H.1 iii"
Markings: WM: none
