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- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720–1778
born: Mogliano Veneto, Republic of Venice (present-day Italy) ; died: Rome, Papal States (present-day Italy) ; active: present-day Italy
- title Page for Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), 1749–1750
- Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), Plate I
- Where object was made: Italy
- etching
- Paper Type: laid
- Plate Mark/Block Dimensions: 551 x 418 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions: 713 x 497 mm
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions: 21 11/16 x 16 7/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions: 28 1/16 x 19 9/16 in
Mat Dimensions: 32 x 24 in - Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
- Not on display
- 1983.0017
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Inscription panel in left center, barred window below inscription in lower foreground, stairway at right, and figure bound in chains at top.