Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Carceri invenzione]. Piranesi F[ecit]. [Plate 2, 2nd or 3rd state. 1761?]

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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Carceri invenzione]. Piranesi F[ecit]. [Plate 2, 2nd or 3rd state. 1761?]

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Description

The imaginary interior of a Roman prison, open at one side with a view through one of its arches of a church tower, carvings, ropes and pulleys, a bound prisoner in the centre foreground, his legs tied to a rack Focillon 24 Robison catalogue number 43, State 4, mid-1760s to early 1770s. Other Titles - Imaginary prisons [translation]. The man on the rack Extended Title - From: Carceri d'invenzione, 1760-1761 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 547 x 413 mm on she...

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Date created

1760 - 1764 - 1761 - 1774

Creator

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22821712

Locations

Rome

Related subjects

Italy / Antiquities / Prisons / Torture / Rome

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