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Prisoners on a Projecting Platform

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Prisoners on a Projecting Platform

1760

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Prisoners on a Projecting Platform

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Prisoners on a Projecting Platform

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Prisoners on a Projecting Platform

1760

Physical Qualities Etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite with burnishing, Sheet: 470 x 620 mm. (18 1/2 x 24 7/16 in.) Plate: 410 x 537 mm. (16 1/8 x 21 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number 1935.1.10
A vast arch framing galleries and gangways with groups of prisoners on a platform to the left
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein

Inscribed: In trompe l'oeil on surface at lower left: "Piranesi f." In upper right corner: "X" In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H. 10 ii"

Markings: WM: none

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1719–1777

Italian, 1720-1778
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1759–1768
François Hutin
Visiting the Prisoners
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The Giant Wheel
1748
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1877
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The Pyramid of Caius Cestius
1739–1777
Queen Mary Receiving the Prisoners on the Tower Green
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Queen Mary Receiving the Prisoners on the Tower Green
1839
THE BATHS OF CARACALLA
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
From the series "Vedute di Roma"
1764
The Old Loading Platform
A. Grant Arnold and WPA/Federal Art Project, Woodstock
The Old Loading Platform
1936