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Prisoners on a Projecting Platform,
1761
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720–1778; born Mogliano Veneto, Italy; died Rome, Italy; active Rome
x1938-13 j
Information
Title
Prisoners on a Projecting Platform
Dates
1761
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 41 x 54 cm. (16 1/8 x 21 1/4 in.)
sheet: 49 x 63.3 cm. (19 5/16 x 24 15/16 in.)
frame: 62 × 77.2 × 2.5 cm (24 7/16 × 30 3/8 × 1 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1938-13 j
Place Made
Europe, Italy
Inscription
Numbered in plate, upper right: X.
Signed in plate, lower left: Piranesi f.
Reference Numbers
Focillon 33; Hind 27; Robison 36; Wilton-Ely 35
Materials
Techniques
Subject
- Henri Focillon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre (Paris: Libr. Renouard, H. Laurens, 1918)., nos. 24–39
- Arthur Mayger Hind, Early Italian engraving: a critical catalogue with complete reproduction of all the prints described (London: Pub. for M. Knoedler, New York, by B. Quaritch, 1938-48)., nos. 24–29
- Andrew Robison, Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies (Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art; Chicago: University of Chicago, 1986)., nos. 26–41
- John Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the complete etchings (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994)., nos. 29–42
