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Prisoners on a Projecting Platform

1761
18th century
416 x 549 mm (16.4 x 21.6 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Etching on laid paper

State: Fifth of six states

Print impression quality: Weak in some delicate passages, otherwise fairly good

Series: from Carceri d’Invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi, Archit[etto] Vene[ziano]

Edition: First Paris edition, 1800–1809

Marks: Signed in plate, lower left: “Piranesi f.”

Marks: Watermark: Hind #7 right center Watermark: “house and bird” left center

Bibliography: Focillon 33; Hind 10; Wilton-Ely 35 and p. 65 with remark: “A vast arch framing galleries and gangways with groups of prisoners on a platform to the left.”

Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), before 1953

Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.10

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architecture*, imprisonment*, prisoners*, prisons*

architecture - Art or science of designing and building structures, especially habitable structures, in accordance with principles determined by aesthetic and practical or material considerations. Refers also to the structures created. [November 1994 related term added. October 1990 alternate term added.]
imprisonment - LCSH Link
prisoners - Related Term
prisons - Use for places of confinement and correction run by state or federal authorities for those adults convicted to sentences over one year for serious crimes; developed since the late 18th century and generally characterized by cell and corridor plans with separation by offense and sex, and programs of rehabilitation provided as means toward prisoner reform. Use "jails" for places for offenders sentenced either for lesser crimes or for terms up to one year.

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plate Dimensions: 416 x 549 mm (16.4 x 21.6 in.)

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778) . Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, 1761. From Carceri d’Invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi, Archit[etto] Vene[ziano]. Etching on laid paper. Fifth of six states. plate : 416 x 549 mm (16.4 x 21.6 in.). Sheet : 510 x 711 mm (20.1 x 28 in.). DAC accession number 1973.D1.38.10. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), before 1953. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: M. Johnston) .

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