Prisoners on a projecting platform

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italy
1720 – 1778

Prisoners on a projecting platform
plate 10 from the series Carceri d'invenzioni (Imaginary prisons)
c 1749-50; and 1761
etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing on paper
Place made
Rome
Medium
etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing on paper
Dimensions
41.6 x 55.0 cm (plate)
52.7 x 70.7 cm (sheet)
Credit line
Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund 1961
Accession number
612G10
Signature and date
Signed in plate l.l. "Piranesi f.". Not dated.
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints
  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi 1720 – 1778

    Prisoners on a projecting platform

    c 1749-50; and 1761
    etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing on paper
    Accession no: 612G10