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
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
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
