Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, plate 10 from Imaginary Prisons

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1750–60

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-1778

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Title: Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, plate 10 from Imaginary Prisons
Origin: Italy
Date: 1750–1760
Medium: Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 408 × 540 mm (image); 414 × 548 mm (plate); 558 × 809 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1941.1254
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Hind 10 I/III

Robison 36 I/VI

Focillon 33

Ficacci 119

Wilton-Ely 35

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